WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.279 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 2 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:04.799 Accident and injury Lawyers. 3 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:16.519 No, it's Mandy Connell, Andy Conall, koam ninem god wa. 4 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:27.320 Want to say NY three, Bendyconnell, Keith sad Thing, Welcome Buffa, 5 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:30.879 Welcome to a Wednesday feels like Thursday edition of the show. 6 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.079 It has been a short week, but we have made 7 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.759 the most of it. Now I have so much stuff 8 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:38.479 on the blog today. I am Mandy Connall, joined of 9 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:41.439 course by my right hand man. He is Anthony Rodriguez. 10 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:46.320 You may call him a rod. Let's jump right into 11 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:48.280 the blog because we've got a bunch of stuff. We've 12 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:50.320 got guests coming up today. It's gonna be a busy, 13 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:55.079 busy broadcast day. So head on over to mandy'sblog dot com. 14 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.079 That's mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says 15 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.320 nine to twenty excuse me, look for the headline that 16 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:04.519 says nine to four twenty four blog The Auric Gang 17 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:08.439 story is exploding and Gabe Evans pops in. Click on 18 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:11.159 that and here are the headlines you will find within 19 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:12.680 tick Tech two. 20 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:15.079 I think going with some miss in office half of 21 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:16.959 American all with ships and clipments of say that's going 22 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:18.040 to press flinch. 23 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.719 Today on the blog what is actually happening in Aurora 24 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:27.239 right now? 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What 35 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:09.120 it's like scrolling social media. In twenty twenty four, It's 36 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.599 time for the Manning gas production number. Those are the 37 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:17.960 headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. Now, 38 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.039 looking at how thinn the blog is, you might be thinking, Mandy, 39 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:23.719 you really took the day off here. But no, when 40 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.120 you see the deep dive that I did looking at 41 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:30.000 all of the different media coverage of the situation in Aurora, 42 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:35.159 whatever that is. I mean that whatever that is, because 43 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:39.560 depending on what news media outlet you consume, you would 44 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:43.280 think that either there's absolutely nothing to see, we don't 45 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:46.000 have any gang issues, no crime in Aurora, don't look 46 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.800 over there, or if you consume different news media, you 47 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:52.560 would find out that, yeah, the police have been actively 48 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:54.800 involved with this gang for a long time. Or you 49 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.560 would find out that Mayor Mike Johnson says, oh, that's 50 00:02:57.560 --> 00:02:59.560 an Aurora on Denver, and you would find out that 51 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:01.319 Mayor Mike Compton says, yeah, we've got a problem, but 52 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:04.280 it's isolated. I mean it's it's all over the place. 53 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:07.199 You like me to present you with horses mouth, yes, please? 54 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:09.759 Or a Mayor Mike Kaufman was on with CMN this 55 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:11.960 morning and this is what he said. 56 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.280 Well, Mayor, all of these questions are really stemming from 57 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:17.680 that viral video that show what looked like Venezuelan gangs 58 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:19.639 breaking into an apartment complex. 59 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:22.360 Can you provide some clarification on that. Have a rest 60 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:22.919 been made? 61 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:25.479 Is this part of that TDA gang or do we 62 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:28.560 know any other information about how many are involved in 63 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:29.800 any of these situations. 64 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:33.319 You know, there there certainly have been a rest of 65 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:38.240 TDA gang members, so that's that's a big concern. And 66 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:43.520 so you know, again I hope to resolve this really soon. 67 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.000 I've got you know, the interntief of police saying that 68 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:49.360 it's not an issue, and I've got the property owners 69 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:51.639 saying saying that it is. And so I hope to 70 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:55.400 be have a meeting with the residents from. 71 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:57.000 Both apartment buildings. 72 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.439 This week as well as a meeting with representatives of 73 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:04.719 the property owners this week, so we to bring this 74 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:08.639 to a conclusion, you know, whether or not it's it's 75 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:13.199 gang related or not. The fact is that there's obviously criminality. 76 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:13.840 There and it needs to be stopped. 77 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:18.639 But you know, are the are the owners doing all 78 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:21.319 that they can in terms of securing their buildings and 79 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:23.480 so I so there's a lot of questions, and I 80 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.399 wish I had the answers this morning, but I don't, 81 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:27.720 so at least. 82 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:29.839 Mayor Mike Kaufman. I think Mayor Mike Kaufman is being 83 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:34.639 the most honest. I mean, Daniel Dorinsky was put into 84 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:37.680 a position and I want to defend her for just 85 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:41.720 a second here. Daniel Dorinsky started sounding the alarm, only 86 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:45.680 to be told by everyone else in Aurora everywhere else, 87 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:47.959 Oh no, that's not an issue. You're just making this up, didn't. 88 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:52.079 Governor Jared Paula said, it's a quote sigment of her imagination. 89 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.399 At the same time, she has constituents coming to her 90 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:59.959 talking about the dangerous situations at these various apartment complex. 91 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.680 Says she actually helped move three different families out of 92 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:07.800 these apartments, and the whole time she's being told sit down, 93 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:09.399 shut up, let the grown. 94 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.360 Ups handle this, and no one was doing anything. Wait, 95 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:13.680 so they're pulling a Donald You are faked. 96 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:17.319 Yes, they essentially tried to fake news Danielle Drensky, and 97 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:20.759 the reality was she was sounding the alarm and all 98 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:23.360 they had to do to get her to stop sounding 99 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.680 the alarm was say, Danielle, here's what we know so far, 100 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:29.519 here's what we're doing right now, here's how we're addressing 101 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:31.680 this problem. But we don't want to blow it up 102 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:34.720 into something that makes it seem even bigger like it 103 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:38.399 is consumed Aurora. Instead, they tried to shut her down, 104 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:40.240 tell her she was crazy, tell her she didn't know 105 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:42.800 what's going on, tell her her constituents were lying to her. 106 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.639 I mean, that's the ultimate end result. So she sounded 107 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.480 the alarm, and the alarm is now a three alarm fire. 108 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:52.439 And I'm I think that people that live in these 109 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:56.040 apartment complexes are around them are probably happy. It's finally 110 00:05:56.040 --> 00:06:01.680 getting the attention it deserves. So you have to look 111 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:05.600 at all, and I mean all of the coverage that 112 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.480 has come out, because let me pull up the headlines 113 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.519 really quickly. I have like seven different stories embedded, and 114 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:15.319 I want to be able to cross reference because they 115 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.240 are They're fascinating the way that our different news media 116 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:23.040 outlets are handling this particular situation. I want to start 117 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:27.959 with the Denver Zette because they are doing extremely complete reporting, 118 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:32.680 using things like pulling police logs and getting nine to 119 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.439 one one reports and things of that nature. And I 120 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:38.600 want to share just part of this. Newly released details 121 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:42.240 compiled from police written arrest affidavits, hinted of a twisted 122 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:47.000 tail involving to Venezuelan brothers who allegedly intimidated other immigrants 123 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:50.879 with guns and threats. Witnesses said they bragged that they 124 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:54.319 owned an apartment complex in North Aurora and funded their 125 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:57.879 gang by stealing from Walmart stores. But just before dawn 126 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:02.399 on July twenty eighth, Janardi J. Pacheco Tiranos twenty two 127 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:07.319 and his older brother, Janardi Dejezos Pacheco Chiranas, twenty four. 128 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:09.800 We're part of a group of several men who terrorized 129 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:13.560 residents of the Aspen Grove apartments at Nome Street with 130 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:17.040 automatic weapons. It was a drunken night turned violent, according 131 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.079 to a July thirtieth rest a warrant, and the brothers 132 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:24.399 are now in ice custody. Now that is that everything 133 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.519 that they said there happened, because they're using arrest affidavits 134 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.480 to sort of determine what's going on with these two brothers. Now, 135 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:33.720 this all happened at the Nome Street apartment complex that 136 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:35.879 has already been shut down. And I want to come 137 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:40.439 back to that later because we have a significant issue 138 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.879 with affordable housing in this area and governments are coming 139 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:47.720 in and they are condemning these properties. And don't get 140 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:50.920 me wrong, I also embedded on the blog today the 141 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:55.319 citizen reporting done by a guy named Tyler Olivera. He 142 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:59.439 went to these apartment complexes and asked people the questions. Now, 143 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:01.480 a lot of the residents were like, no, no, there's 144 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.519 no gangs. No gangs. No, no, no, no gangs. 145 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:04.600 No. 146 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:06.800 I don't know. But some people were like, yeah, for 147 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:08.439 my own security, I don't want to talk about this. 148 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:11.519 And if you watch the video, it is easy to 149 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:15.199 infer from the behavior of the people in the complex 150 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.040 that they are not going to put themselves in the 151 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:21.560 line of fire because when Tyler Olivera, or the police 152 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:24.000 or everybody else leaves, they've got to live there. 153 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:24.800 Right. 154 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:28.560 There was a press conference yesterday that was called by 155 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:30.879 a bunch of residents in one of these apartment complexes, 156 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.919 and they were rightly calling out the owners of these 157 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:37.159 apartment complexes for being slum lords, which is not in doubt. 158 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:39.039 I mean, all you have to do is look at 159 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:43.519 the pictures. There's garbage piled up outside, there's garbage inside. 160 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.679 They have a mice, a mouse infestation, they've got a 161 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:52.679 bedbug infestation. These apartments are not habitable by any standard 162 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.320 for human beings. So we do have a slow looard situation. 163 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:59.799 But what we have is a slum lords situation meeting 164 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:05.039 Venezuelan gangs. How do I know this? Because we know 165 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.440 this because the let's see the I'm trying to figure 166 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:12.679 out which one is the one that talked about The 167 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:18.039 owners of the apartment complex sent a letter two not 168 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:22.039 just Attorney General Phil Wiser, but also to the mayor saying, look, 169 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:25.519 we have lost control of these apartment complexes. We've lost 170 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:29.399 control and we need help. And now that might be 171 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:32.480 just pr but here's the thing. What if they're not lying, 172 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.480 what if there's slum lords. Let's concede to that fact 173 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:40.320 they're slum lords. And at the same time they are 174 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.720 doing even less because these gangs have taken over and 175 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:46.799 their staff essentially refused to come to work anymore. We're done, 176 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.360 We're not working anymore. So it's we've we've got this 177 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:55.799 convergence of things happening and in Aurora. Now, somebody just 178 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:57.639 pointed out on the Common Spirit Health text line you 179 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:01.000 can always text us at five sixty six nine, and 180 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:03.759 they said, Mandy, it's widely happening in Denver. The fact 181 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:06.399 that Mayor Johnston is not addressing it is a bigger crime. Oh, 182 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:08.919 Mayor Johnston is basically like, hey, everything's fine in Denver 183 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:10.639 as long as you don't look at the homeless hotels. 184 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:14.399 Forget about the trouble Tree or the meth Western. Everything's fine, 185 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:17.759 everything's fine, We're doing everything right. I mean, it's absurd. 186 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:19.360 You did you just come up with the last nick name? No, 187 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:21.159 I did not. The meth Western has been around for 188 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.519 a while. Oh man, the Trouble Tree in the meth Western. 189 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:26.600 Are there ever been better nicknames for that? I mean, 190 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:29.840 there's another hotel, but I don't think it has I 191 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:31.600 don't know if it hasn't a nickname yet. Somebody will 192 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.639 let me know if it does. Hey, Mandy says this Texter. 193 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:37.159 Last night Fox thirty one had the residence of one 194 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:39.720 of those apartment buildings. All they wanted was to have 195 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:42.039 the place cleaned up. They're probably just used to having 196 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:45.840 Venezuelan gangs around. The guy had a Venezuelan shirt on. Now, 197 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:49.039 it is my understanding, and I have not verified this myself, 198 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.799 so this could be wrong. It is my understanding that 199 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:55.639 that press conference was organized by a group that is 200 00:10:55.759 --> 00:11:00.480 funded by government. City of Aurora, City of Denver behalf 201 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:04.440 of immigrants. So they came out to say, because here's 202 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:09.799 the problem, you guys. You have forty thousand Venezuelan's living 203 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:13.080 in the metro area at this point, right I mean 204 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:15.639 twenty thousand. They say half of them left. So twenty 205 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:19.120 thousand New Venezuelan immigrants living here in the metro A 206 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:21.679 vast majority of them are not criminals. They're not part 207 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:25.600 of a gang. They're not here to rob people and steel. 208 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:28.360 They're here because genuinely they want a better life. Now 209 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.399 what percentage of the twenty thousand is are members of 210 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:33.600 a gang? I don't know. I have no idea, but 211 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:35.919 I have to believe it's not a vast majority. So 212 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:40.240 you're trying to balance not turning people against people who 213 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:42.639 came here for a better life, who are trying to 214 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:44.639 live here, work here, do the right thing. They want 215 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:46.759 to raise their families here. You don't want to cast 216 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:50.440 them in the same light as these gang members, right, 217 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:53.639 I mean, it's not fair. It's really not fair. Now 218 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:56.120 I could argue about their methodology of coming to the 219 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.360 United States walking across the southern border. I mean, we 220 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:01.960 could talk about that for a while, can I I'm 221 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:04.240 to have a sidewinder just for a second, you guys. 222 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:07.720 I have a friend whose husband is Irish. They have 223 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:12.279 been married for twenty three years. She lived in Ireland 224 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:15.240 for many years now. They've been moved back to the 225 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.600 United States. He is trying to get the final paperwork 226 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:21.120 to be a naturalized part of the United States of 227 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:23.879 America because he's been married to an American woman for 228 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:27.879 twenty three years and he now has to do another 229 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.600 immigration interview and he has to do it in the UK. 230 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:37.840 That's how absurd our immigration system is. I mean, it's 231 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:41.440 just insane what he is and the money that they've spent. 232 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.000 So it doesn't shock me or surprise me that someone 233 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:45.960 would try to take the cheater's way out and just 234 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:48.320 walk across the southern border and be welcome with open arms. 235 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.879 But the reality is not all of these people are 236 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:54.000 bad people, but the reality is also that some of 237 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:58.919 them are some of them are very bad people. So 238 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:01.399 now we're in this situation where Aurora is getting a 239 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:05.000 massive black eye, even though I believe and if you 240 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:07.480 live in Aurora, you can comment on the text line 241 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:10.799 about your current situation. But we all know, first of all, 242 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:14.919 Aura is ginormous, right, It's a huge land mass, massive 243 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:17.759 land mass, So it stands to reason that Aurora is 244 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:20.039 still the same as it's been for a long time. 245 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:23.480 When people ask me about Aurora, this is what I say, 246 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.879 in Aurora. You can drive down a street and you 247 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:30.679 can see beautiful neighborhood on the right, beautiful neighborhood on 248 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:32.639 the left, and then you drive a half a mile 249 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:34.240 and you're literally in the slums. 250 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:35.639 I used to live in a part of Aurora. You 251 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:37.919 literally would not go far like oh this is nice. Yeah, 252 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:39.879 and then real quick, oh oh wow, this. 253 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:42.679 Is what we talk about. Oh yeah, I mean, Aurora 254 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.279 is is really a tale of two cities. And you 255 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:48.600 can have parts of Aurora that are just gorgeous and 256 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:51.399 wonderful and they have good restaurants and you're like, yes, 257 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:53.440 let's go, and then you go into other parts where 258 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:57.000 you're pretty sure you're gonna be shot. So Aurora already 259 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:00.840 has these issues. And Mayor Mike Kaufman, to his credit, 260 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.480 by the way, Mayor Mike Kaufman, has no power in 261 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:09.200 Aurora none. He is a figurehead. The real power comes 262 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:12.840 from the city manager, John Batchelor, who he's the one 263 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.159 in charge of the police department. He's the one in 264 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:20.720 charge of public safety. And I haven't seen him anywhere now. 265 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:23.399 I understand he's off this week or some I don't know, 266 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:27.039 but he's been nowhere and he's the one with all 267 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:29.000 the power. He's the one that makes all the money. 268 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:32.440 So Mayor Mike Kaufman is out there basically doing PR. 269 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:37.840 He's doing powerless PR. He's trying to save whatever reputation 270 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:41.159 that Aurora has been slowly but surely building back up. 271 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:45.200 I think under the current leadership of the current city Council, 272 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:49.879 their aggressive approach to homelessness that is about WorkFirst and 273 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.919 housing secred I mean, there are some really great stories 274 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:57.120 to tell in Aurora right now. This apartment complex situation 275 00:14:57.360 --> 00:14:59.799 is not one of them. I would have lost something 276 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:02.440 up to you guys, and as a libertarian, I am 277 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:05.639 loath to have government insert itself into an account of 278 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.519 private industry. But hear me out. So Aurora already condemned 279 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.120 one of these apartment complexes on Nome Street. But instead 280 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:14.799 of now you've kicked all these people out at a 281 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:17.360 time where we don't have enough affordable housing, right, we 282 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:20.919 don't have enough housing units. So instead, here's my plan. 283 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:23.519 If I were running things in Aurora, I would simply 284 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.679 say to the slan lords, you have four weeks to 285 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:30.799 clean up everything. Four weeks to clean up everything. We'll 286 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:32.759 give you the security that you need during the day, 287 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:34.879 but you have four weeks to clean it all up. 288 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:37.279 If it's not cleaned up and you're free of code 289 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:39.960 violations and everything else, then we are going to seize 290 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.200 your building, but we're not kicking anybody out. We're going 291 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:46.120 to then contract a company to come in and clean 292 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.559 up all the code violations, and then we are going 293 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.039 to contract a company to manage the property for the 294 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:54.799 next year, and then in a year, we are going 295 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.240 to sell that apartment complex to a company that will 296 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:01.080 run it. Probably will shoot for lowally owned, so we 297 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:03.159 don't have any distance saw lords, and we're going to 298 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:06.639 fix this problem instead of just condemning it. So they 299 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.919 make their money back from all of the repairs and 300 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.879 everything they've done by selling the complex in a year 301 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:15.919 to someone else. But you've solved the problem and let 302 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:19.360 people stay in their homes. Oh, Jason Bachelor, not John, 303 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:24.639 thank you for that. Thank you for the correction. Texter Mandy, 304 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:27.559 it's inhumane to invite these people here by not protecting 305 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.159 the southern border, only to have them live in these conditions. 306 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.600 I agree wholeheartedly, but this is one of my personal 307 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:38.200 concerns based on personal experience. When you bring in people 308 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:41.440 from essentially what has become a third world country. They 309 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:45.759 bring their third world country habits with them. I mean, 310 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:49.360 just like things like and I'm not talking about Venezuelan's 311 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:52.159 because Venezuela was a developed economy for a very long time. 312 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:55.159 But when you're talking about some places in Ecuador and 313 00:16:55.279 --> 00:17:00.360 Guatemala and these developing nations where they don't have plumbing 314 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.600 that can handle toilet paper and things of that nature, 315 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:05.519 they bring all of those habits with them, and I 316 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:12.440 find that very concerning, very concerning. So it's like the 317 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.799 slum lords are no longer collecting rents. The gang is 318 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:18.440 collecting rents now. They lost control of their revenue stream. 319 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:21.000 I don't Here's the thing. I don't care. If I 320 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:23.359 am in an apartment complex and all of a sudden 321 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:25.240 people stop paying rent because they said they were paying 322 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:27.880 to gang members, the first thing I would do is 323 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:30.960 fly here from wherever I was, and I would go 324 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.319 meet with the police force and say I need help 325 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:37.160 cleaning up this complex. But the reality is is they've 326 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:39.400 been slum lords for a long time. The city of 327 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:42.319 a War has had an ongoing issue with this particular 328 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.279 company for a long time. 329 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:47.400 If the gangs are taking over and if they are 330 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:50.240 taking people's rent, I wonder if they're asking, like for 331 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:54.359 less Well, to encourage give it to us for less Well. 332 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:57.160 The people who live in these complexes say they're not, 333 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:00.039 they're paying rent to the management company. But again, and 334 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:02.759 I think that the people living in these complexes are 335 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.000 scared and they have to live there at night when 336 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:09.119 all the cameras leave, and they're in a situation where 337 00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:11.720 they don't feel like they have other good options. So 338 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:14.359 I don't know how real that is, but I guess 339 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:16.119 the slow lords are flying in and they're meeting with 340 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:19.359 mayor and others tomorrow to sort of sort this out. 341 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:21.240 And if I'm the slow lords, this is what I do. 342 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:24.559 I say, take the building, take it, just take it, 343 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:26.640 take away their spie. I don't want to deal with 344 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:29.519 it anymore because the building probably isn't worth that much 345 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:33.559 at this point because it's been so badly damaged. So 346 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:35.519 I don't know when we get back. I want to 347 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:37.720 read some of your text messages. If you live in Aurora, 348 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:40.880 and I mean any part of Aurora, tell me your 349 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:44.079 story on the text line. Do you still feel safe 350 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:46.000 walking around your neighborhood? Are you still going to the 351 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:48.880 same restaurants. Can you still shop in the same areas 352 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.279 or are you still comfortable living in your home? Because again, 353 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:56.160 Aurora is massive, and I don't think this is a widespread, 354 00:18:56.400 --> 00:19:00.559 massive problem. I think it's an extremely significant an issue 355 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.720 in a very small part of Aurora. We'll be back 356 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:07.200 right after this our chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one, 357 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.680 Dave Fraser. Dave Fraser, how are you today? I'm good. 358 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:13.440 How you doing, Mandy, I'm doing well. 359 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:16.200 I heard a little rumor that we're going to get 360 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:19.400 some fall tomorrow, Like sweater weather is right around the corner. 361 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.799 It's a brief duck around the corner, and then we'll 362 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:25.839 take another corner and go back to that Warman drive. 363 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:27.480 Yeah day, nice a little turn. 364 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.799 Yeah a Rod wasn't happy with Meaty there. 365 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:32.279 So we count on you to fix the weather the 366 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:35.000 way we like it, Dave, not just the way you're 367 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:36.680 predicting we need it. Was like, so, what are we 368 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.039 looking at nice day tomorrow and then back up for 369 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:40.880 the weekend. Is it going to be that fast? 370 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:45.799 It won't be that fast. So today we're getting a 371 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:47.960 seasonal correction. Last couple of days we've been in the 372 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:51.680 hot nineties, it was ninety three on Sunday and ninety 373 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:54.960 three on Labor Day, ninety four yesterday. So today we're 374 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:56.640 going to be around season, which is eighty four, and 375 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:01.079 then tomorrow we'll be in the load of mid seventy rushing. Yeah, 376 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:03.279 and so we've got two coal fronts coming in. One 377 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:06.039 is actually coming in right now. You'll look outside, you'll 378 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:07.920 see the building clouds. We should start to get into 379 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:10.839 showers and thunderstorms here pretty quickly, which will take us 380 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:13.119 into the evening. They will be scattered, and some of 381 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:16.599 that could linger past midnight into early Thursday before kind 382 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:19.480 of drizzling showers wrap up with some late day sunshine. 383 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.240 But you'll feel the refreshing change tomorrow. And then the 384 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:24.720 other quarter that we'll turn is to head back to 385 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:27.599 the upper eighties to near ninety degrees, but it'll take 386 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:30.960 several days to inch back in that direction, so lower eighties, 387 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:33.400 mid eighties uper ratings, and then maybe close to ninety 388 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:36.680 degrees early next week. And once we get past tonight 389 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:39.240 and tomorrow morning's chance for rain. Unfortunately, the forecast does 390 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:42.400 look dry, although that's what we expect in September, one 391 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:43.319 of the best months of the year. 392 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:46.799 Yeah, so any anything on a ten day, two week 393 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:49.759 outlook that's positive orre we just going to stick around 394 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:53.960 with this kind of weather through September, you know. I, as. 395 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:56.039 Always before I get on here with you, I do 396 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:58.240 the six to ten day, which is just a little 397 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:00.480 beyond our normal seven days that we discab on TV. 398 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:03.160 I do the eighth to fourteen day. I do the 399 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:06.079 one month, the three months. I look at all of it, 400 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:09.200 and everything as it has all summer long, continues to 401 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:14.039 show above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation. And while 402 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:16.119 we talked about this in the past, that never tells 403 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:18.920 you anything about the day to day weather, that pattern 404 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.039 has certainly proved out. We ended up with the second 405 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.680 warmest June an average July for temperatures, fifth warmest August, 406 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:28.039 and second warmest. 407 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:30.880 Summer on record for Denver, only behind the. 408 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:32.599 Hottest summer, which was twenty twelve. 409 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:34.400 Now to be clear, and I actually sent you a 410 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:37.640 text about this the other day. On record is since 411 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:42.359 eighteen seventy two, and it's first reading to me that 412 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:45.480 we don't clarify that because on record sounds like well, 413 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.440 the beginning of record keeping went back thousands of years 414 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:53.279 and when you consider how cyclical weather is in ten 415 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:57.160 thousand year and one hundred thousand year, you know, spans 416 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:01.640 to say on record, I think it gives an impression 417 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:05.960 that people this is like of all time, and that's 418 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:07.720 not at all what we're talking about. 419 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:11.519 Yeah, it's a tough sell, right because of exactly what 420 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:15.599 you said, the cyclical nature of thousands and thousands of years. 421 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:18.200 The only thing we could compare it to is that 422 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:21.079 record of history, and it is a short one, but. 423 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:22.480 It's the only thing we have to compare. 424 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:25.519 And in Denver it's a little frustrating because I get 425 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:28.759 this from viewers all the time. Denver's weather records have 426 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:32.200 been kept in four different places. Twice downtown, then it's 427 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:34.119 Stapleton for the longest time, and then I think it 428 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:37.720 was in nineteen ninety one it transitioned over to DA 429 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:41.440 the airport, which is obviously removed from downtown. So there's 430 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:44.240 always this speculation if we're breaking a record that was 431 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:46.640 set at the airport, or we break in a record 432 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:48.440 that was set downtown. Of course you have to look 433 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:50.359 at what year it was set in. But it's the 434 00:22:50.440 --> 00:22:52.680 only body that we have to be able to compare. 435 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:57.200 The other thing is technology. Think about mercury thermometers back 436 00:22:57.240 --> 00:23:00.839 in the eighteen hundred versus today's. You know, digital means, 437 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:04.119 and there's rounding of temperatures, you know, So when you 438 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:07.920 look at hourly observations, you'll see ninety six point two, 439 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:10.880 ninety six point four, ninety six point eight. And then 440 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:13.759 you do all the averaging for your monthly averages, taking 441 00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:15.960 all the highs and the lows, adding them together, dividing 442 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:17.720 out by the number of days in a month to 443 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:19.359 come up with an average, to be able to compare 444 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:21.599 month to month to month over a series of years. 445 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:24.759 So listen, It is not a perfect science, but it 446 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:26.960 does give you a little bit of an understanding. To say, 447 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:30.119 Denver's average is eighty four today and I tell you 448 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:32.039 it's going to be ninety four. I think you can 449 00:23:32.119 --> 00:23:32.839 make the comparison. 450 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:33.839 That's a hot day. 451 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:34.519 Yeah it is. 452 00:23:34.599 --> 00:23:38.640 And I think in Denver, moving that weather station from 453 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:43.400 downtown to the airport it is significant, maybe more significant 454 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:47.079 here because the airport's on the planes, right, I mean, 455 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:51.720 it's it's a completely different weather area in a lot 456 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:53.880 of ways. And I do think that those changes are 457 00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:56.640 probably more jarring than they would be if we move 458 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:00.680 from a similar climate to another similar climate at different place. 459 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:02.039 I mean, do you find that to be true? 460 00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:05.640 Yeah, I would agree with you on that one hundred percent. 461 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:08.039 As a matter of fact, on the National Weather Service website, 462 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:11.000 if you look for under their climate tape, you'll find 463 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:13.559 a snow comparison and what it will do is it 464 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:18.279 will show you contours of total snow over averages for 465 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:20.920 where the records were kept. And you can see the 466 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:23.400 snow totals are a little higher when they were downtown 467 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:26.279 and a little less as you move out towards the airport. 468 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:28.240 And that has to do with exactly what you said, 469 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:30.480 the topography. It's not a huge difference. 470 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:32.920 We're not talking feet of difference between where the. 471 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:35.759 Sites were originally recorded versus the airport, which is, you know, 472 00:24:35.880 --> 00:24:38.920 nineteen miles away. But you can see those subtle differences, 473 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.119 and it has to do with the sloping of the topography. 474 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:43.119 The closer you get to the footals in the mountains, 475 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:45.359 obviously the totals are deeper the more you move out 476 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:47.200 into the planes that are a little bit lower. So, 477 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:49.400 you know, no surprising to see that it is not 478 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:53.319 a perfect, as I said, a perfect opportunity to compare, 479 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:55.240 but it is the only comparison we have. 480 00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:57.440 Well, on that note, I sent you an email. Did 481 00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:59.160 you get Craigs the email that I afforded to you. 482 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:04.880 I did, and it's top the list of craigcent he 483 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:07.519 pulled from both weather dot Com and Craig's up in 484 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:10.319 longmant Craig for thanks for sending in the question. He 485 00:25:10.440 --> 00:25:13.920 pulled Wikipedia averages for Denver, and he also went to 486 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:16.759 weather dot com for averages for Denver. So I pulled 487 00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:18.079 up the list that he sent. 488 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:18.680 He pulled it. 489 00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:22.480 The problem is anybody can edit Wikipedia, as you know. 490 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:26.119 So I went in and I looked just for comparison 491 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:29.279 to see. And what I can't figure out is if 492 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:32.559 the numbers Craig included in his spreadsheet for June, July, 493 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:34.759 and August he was looking at the summer of twenty 494 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:38.160 twenty four was from a site possibly in downtown Denver, 495 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:42.440 versus the quote unquote at the airport. So I'll give 496 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:44.799 you it for instance, So on the first of August 497 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:47.319 he reported Denver hit one hundred and one. On the 498 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:50.240 second of August his report shows one hundred. Well, the 499 00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:52.960 airport reported ninety nine on the first and one hundred 500 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.279 and one on the second and then he had ninety six. 501 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:57.240 They had ninety six, and then he had ninety nine. 502 00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:59.799 They had one hundred and two. So the numbers don't jive. 503 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:02.039 The averages are going to be very different. 504 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:05.559 Well, I think the lesson is still everything from Wikipedia 505 00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:07.279 should be looked at with a skeptical eye. 506 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:11.079 Absolutely, yeah, absolute, and if you want, if you want official, 507 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:14.519 Despite everything we just talked about, the only record keeping 508 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:17.640 we have that is considered official based on the National 509 00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:20.720 Weather Service, who is the record keeping organization for weather 510 00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:23.799 across the country, is that site out at the airport, 511 00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:26.319 and the official record can be found on their website, 512 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:27.279 and that's where. 513 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:29.400 I would go to get the official numbers to the 514 00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:32.279 Texter you just sent, No, Mandy, the planes are on 515 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:36.319 the airport, haha, sir or madam haha. Ralph asked the 516 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:37.880 question that I was going to ask you because I 517 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:40.359 heard a little news story about this. Are we currently 518 00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:43.559 in La Nina or El Nino or neither? And what 519 00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:47.359 can we expect for winter? In that respect, we are 520 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:47.799 in La. 521 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:50.960 Nina kind of heading towards the neutral and the outlook 522 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.799 for winter. I don't know that there's been a conclusion 523 00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:57.279 yet whether we'll slip back to Lamina. We will determine 524 00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:00.240 that in the coming month to what impacted they have 525 00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.319 it does have. Lamina and El Nina do have different 526 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:06.960 impacts to east versus west across Colorado, and who benefits 527 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:09.160 and who doesn't. We should be able to work that out. 528 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:11.079 Those are numbers that come out all the time. As 529 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:13.039 matter of fact, when I look at the climate data 530 00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:15.839 for the outlooks that I was just telling you about 531 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:18.680 six to ten, the eight to fourteen, the three months, 532 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:21.319 all of that is based on where we are when 533 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:24.680 it comes to those types of patterns for El Nino Lamina. 534 00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:28.720 So for right now, you know the next November persistent. 535 00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:34.079 You know they're looking at Lamina to emerge in September, 536 00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:36.799 and so we may be leaning more towards La Nina 537 00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:39.599 from September through November. We'll have to wait and see 538 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:41.759 if that changes a little bit for the latter part 539 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:45.319 of winter, which made the December, January and februe. Don't 540 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:48.319 discount March in April for us here in Denver, Personelo 541 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:48.839 and for. 542 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:51.519 That person who's in there cargoing. But what's the difference 543 00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:53.000 between La Nina and El Nino. 544 00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:57.920 It's the difference in the temperatures of the Pacific waters 545 00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:02.680 La Nina colder, warmer, and it changes the jet streams 546 00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:06.119 flow across the Pacific, and that's the storm track that 547 00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:10.440 comes into the United States, the the continuous United States 548 00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:13.440 from west to east. So depending on what the ocean 549 00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:16.200 waters are doing, the jet stream will kind of fluctuate 550 00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:18.559 a little bit, and the movement of that jet can 551 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:21.240 change across Colorado and how it comes over the mountains 552 00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:23.799 from more of a northwesternly flow or a southern track. 553 00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:27.000 Those differences in the tracks across the state from north 554 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:30.440 to south highly influenced where storms will set up and 555 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.480 who will benefit from those different storm systems. So a 556 00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:36.440 southern tract will benefit the front range, a northwestern tract 557 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:39.400 will benefit more. Northwestern Colorado will be a little drier, 558 00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:42.720 and it also influences temperatures as well. So those things 559 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:44.720 are taken in, but they're like the long range outlook. 560 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:46.519 It's not a day to day. We stable the day 561 00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:48.599 to day. We get into the nitty gritty, we get 562 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:50.960 into the details. We're looking for the hard numbers. Then 563 00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:53.119 when it starts, when it ends, how much you're shoveling 564 00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:54.599 all of that kind of stuff, and you. 565 00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:56.960 Can find out all that nitty gritty every single day 566 00:28:57.000 --> 00:28:59.839 on Fox thirty one. They're great meteorology staff can keep 567 00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:02.200 you up to date. And Dave Fraser, we appreciate you. 568 00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:03.240 We'll talk to again next week. 569 00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:05.519 I have a great week and weekend. 570 00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:09.240 All right, that is Dave Fraser. We will be right 571 00:29:09.319 --> 00:29:13.680 back from you. Aurora rights. What do you call people Aurorans? 572 00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:20.799 That doesn't sound good, Aurorans or a What do we 573 00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:24.720 call the people of Aurora? I ran closest. I don't know. 574 00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:28.960 That doesn't sound good though. That's not a good sounding name, Aroon. 575 00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:35.000 Nothing else sounds good Aurorans, Aurora anyway. A lot of 576 00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:38.160 you weigh in, A lot of you weigh in. And 577 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:41.079 this one says Mandy. I'm fifty years old and I've 578 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:43.640 lived in Aurora my entire life. Other than four years 579 00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:47.160 in Fort Collins, I've steadily moved southeast over time to 580 00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:49.839 the nicer areas of Aurora to get my kids in 581 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:52.839 the Cherry Creek School district. I know exactly the areas 582 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:55.039 of Aurora to avoid, in which ones are generally nice 583 00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:57.279 and peaceful. My daughter and her friends wanted to go 584 00:29:57.319 --> 00:30:00.000 see their high school football team play in Aurora Public 585 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:03.400 School team at the APS Stadium next to Hinckley High 586 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:06.480 School last Friday. Knowing that that is not a good area, 587 00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:08.920 my wife and I said they could not go without us. 588 00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:12.759 Unsurprisingly to me, multiple fights broke out in the stands 589 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:16.519 and in the parking lot shortly after halftime. Multiple police 590 00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:19.559 and other emergency vehicles were dispatched to the area to 591 00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:23.319 control the situation. My daughter and her friends were horrified, 592 00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:26.000 but they will not doubt me again when I tell 593 00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:29.079 them which areas are good or bad. Someone posted and 594 00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:31.319 he sent a video. We can't. I can't get videos 595 00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:35.119 on the text line. Guys, I can't get photos. I 596 00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:36.960 can't get any of that stuff on the text line. 597 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:38.960 So oh wait, he said it via another text so 598 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:43.519 it's an Instagram. I'll look at that on the break, Mandy, 599 00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:46.640 Are there Venezuelan gangs an Aurora or not? Of course, 600 00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:49.559 conflicting reports, and that's really what we've been talking about 601 00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:52.480 earlier on the show. It's like, can we just get 602 00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:56.119 accurate reporting. The Denver Gazette seems to be the only 603 00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:59.880 news outlet that can actually file an open records request 604 00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:05.319 for things like police affidavits and arrest records. A lot 605 00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:08.440 of other news media outlets my news are just talking 606 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:10.680 to people like Governor Jared Polis and he's like, no, 607 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:14.759 it's fine, and they're like, oh, okay, all right, there 608 00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:19.039 you go. There you go. Hi, Mandy. I've been a 609 00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:22.480 resident in Aurora since nineteen seventy seven, still live here. 610 00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:25.359 Up until the year two thousand, Aurora was a great 611 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:28.519 city to raise a family, and crime has progressively gotten 612 00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:30.799 much worse over the last twenty four years, but the 613 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:34.759 worst parts are in certain neighborhoods, particularly where the Venezuelan 614 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:37.799 gang apartments are. My wife and I and our three 615 00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:40.839 little kids lived in the Nome Street apartments thirty one 616 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:43.720 years ago and it was a nice community then. Now. 617 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:46.720 I do still feel relatively safe in the majority of 618 00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:52.480 the city elsewhere, minus random guns fired off and bad drivers. Mandy, 619 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:55.599 Aurora is dealing with big city problems, but not equipped 620 00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:58.680 for it. Most of Aurora is fine, including my neighborhood. 621 00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:01.640 By the way, the city, they can't just take a property. 622 00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:04.440 It takes multiple trips to court with multiple fines, usually 623 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:07.119 reduced by judges to give a second chance before you 624 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.480 can contemplate condemning it so they could get control. The 625 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:13.400 biggest problem is all the players may be telling the truth, 626 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:17.000 which shows the complexity. And I think that's part of it, 627 00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:19.519 is that I do think there's truth in all of this. 628 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:23.799 There are Venezuelan gangs, there are slumlords, there are all 629 00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:27.599 of these issues. But in trying to solve the problem 630 00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.880 without just condemning the building, because we already have a 631 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:33.440 shortage of affordable housing, and I think one of the 632 00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:36.480 reasons that the residents are keeping things to themselves are 633 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:38.519 number one, they don't want to put themselves in the 634 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:41.079 line of fire, but number two, they're afraid they're going 635 00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:42.559 to be thrown out on the street like the Nome 636 00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:44.839 Street people were, and that they're not going to have 637 00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:47.799 any place to live, and that a roof is better 638 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:48.559 than no roof. 639 00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:49.240 Right. 640 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.519 So I'm looking, I'm trying to spitball here how to 641 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:56.000 solve this problem. And I am loath to say that 642 00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:58.519 the government should ever be able to seize a property. 643 00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:01.599 But if I'm may Or Kaufman and I am Jason 644 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:04.440 Batchelor and I meet with these slum lords tomorrow, I 645 00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.920 handle a list of code violations and the fines that 646 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:09.000 go with it, and I say, you have one month 647 00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:11.200 to solve all these problems and pay all of your 648 00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:14.279 code violation fines, or you can just give us the property. 649 00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:16.680 What do you want to do? Property can't be worth 650 00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:21.319 much now at all, you know, make it hard enough 651 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:25.240 that you then seize the property. You then contract out 652 00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:27.880 somebody to come in and fix everything that's wrong with it, 653 00:33:28.839 --> 00:33:30.480 and then you hire a management company and then you 654 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:34.279 sell it in a year. You don't keep it. That 655 00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:37.640 would be what I would recommend, but you know that's 656 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:40.440 just me. Mandy. I've been a resident in Aurora since 657 00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:43.279 nineteen seventy so, oh wait a minute, hang on. I 658 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:45.839 lived in Aurora all my life. I carried mail and 659 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:48.640 Aurora for thirty years and delivered to all of those apartments. 660 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:51.279 They've been run down, low income places for as long 661 00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:53.920 as I can remember. It hurts my heart to see 662 00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:57.319 how far my city has fallen, and that my friends 663 00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:00.640 is right there people who live and grow up in Aurora. 664 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:04.839 It's heartbreaking. I think for Mayor Mike Kaufman, it's heartbreaking. 665 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:08.239 I know that Mayor Mike Kaufman, I know that Daniel Drinsky, 666 00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:11.559 I know that everyone on the city Council loves Aurora, 667 00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:13.960 or they wouldn't be putting themselves out there trying to 668 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:17.840 fix the problems, but acting like there isn't a problem 669 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.119 when there obviously is one. It's just bad advice, really 670 00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:24.760 bad advice, because now it's exploded into way more than 671 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:25.400 it needed to be. 672 00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:28.960 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 673 00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:30.480 accident and injury lawyers. 674 00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:46.199 No, it's Mandy Connell Andyna Kamada say the nicety because. 675 00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:51.239 Many Connell Keith is sad thing. 676 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.519 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the second hour of the show. 677 00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:56.840 I am your host, Mandy Connell, joined of course by 678 00:34:56.880 --> 00:35:01.440 Anthony Rodriguez. It now joined by Rep. Gabe Evans. He 679 00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:07.079 is running in the eighth Congressional district against Representative Yadiro Caraveo, 680 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:09.960 and he would love to be your next member of Congress. Gabe, 681 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:10.760 welcome back to the show. 682 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:14.360 First off, always great to be on with you, Mandy. 683 00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:16.800 Gabe and I were just talking before he came on. 684 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:19.920 And I tell candidates this all the time, that they 685 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:21.960 want to come on in like June July of an 686 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:23.920 election year. I go, No one's paying attention to you 687 00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:27.079 until after Labor day. So here we are after Labor 688 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:30.119 Day and the track meet to election day is on. 689 00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:33.320 I want people to know a little bit about you, Gabe, 690 00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:36.000 because I think your story, your backstory is just a really, 691 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:38.800 really good one. So tell people who is Gabe Evans. 692 00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:43.880 Yeah, I mean my story starts with my grandparents on 693 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:46.880 my dad's side, career naval officer on my mom's side. 694 00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:50.719 Actually an immigrant to the United States from Mexico, earned 695 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.280 his citizenship with two purple hearts in World War Two, 696 00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:56.880 And so you know, I was born and raised in Colorado, 697 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.280 spent twelve years in the US Army, another ten years 698 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:03.440 in law enforcements, and then because of what's happened to 699 00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:06.800 public safety in Colorado, I stepped away from law enforcement. 700 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:09.039 In twenty twenty two, ran for and won my state 701 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:11.960 House seat down at the state Capitol of Denver. Been 702 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:14.400 fighting down there for two years to try to just 703 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:17.519 restore some common sense. We know we have a crime problem, 704 00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:20.599 we know we have an affordability problem. The fact, you know, 705 00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:23.280 I'm married, My wife and I've been married for fifteen years. 706 00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:24.079 We got two boys. 707 00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:26.840 The fact that Colorado is the number two state in 708 00:36:26.920 --> 00:36:30.760 the nation for teenagers overdosing and dying on fentanyl is 709 00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:33.760 abhorrent to me. That's why I got involved in politics 710 00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:36.039 after twenty two years in the military and law enforcement. 711 00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:37.760 That's why I'm running for Congress now in the eighth 712 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.239 Congression district. We have got to fix these problems. 713 00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:43.719 Well, let's talk specifically about some of those issues. Let's 714 00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:46.599 start with crime. You know, we the last hour of 715 00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:50.159 the show, I talked about this massive story out of Aurora, 716 00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:52.639 and depending what news media outlet you listen to, there's 717 00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:55.559 either a huge gang issue in Aurora or there's nothing. 718 00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:57.800 I mean, it's the coverage of this story has been 719 00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:02.960 really amazing to me to see the broad nature of 720 00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:07.079 either dismissiveness or panic that is on display. But it's 721 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:11.000 a real problem in Congress. What do you do to 722 00:37:11.159 --> 00:37:13.440 help with the problems that we're having here in Colorado 723 00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:14.800 when it comes to crime. 724 00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:17.840 Again. 725 00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:19.800 So I was a cop in the Denver metro area 726 00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:21.800 from twenty eleven to twenty twenty two. 727 00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:24.960 And what we know is there's three big driving factors 728 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:25.280 that are. 729 00:37:25.239 --> 00:37:25.760 Going on here. 730 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:29.159 Number One, we've got a wide open southern border. We've 731 00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:33.119 got transnational criminal organizations and cartels that are coming into 732 00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:37.039 the United States. But then problem number two is what 733 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:38.760 the progressive left has done. 734 00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:39.599 Here in Colorado. 735 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:43.280 They've literally defunded the police. They have voted for those policies. 736 00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:46.119 They've lowered the penalties. 737 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:49.760 For drug dealing, for breaking into cars, for everything that 738 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:50.440 you can think of. 739 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:56.280 And so that's attracted these cartels, these transnational criminal organizations. 740 00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:58.079 Out of the fifty states in the United States, they're 741 00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:01.719 going to go to places like Colorado because the state, 742 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:05.280 the Progressive Democrats and the state have handcuffed law enforcement. 743 00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:08.039 And then that leads to the third issue that we have, 744 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.800 which is that cops in Colorado would love to be 745 00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:14.480 able to enforce the law, but they can't because of 746 00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:17.320 the policies that the folks down at the state Capitol 747 00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:18.199 and the folks the. 748 00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:19.920 Progressive Dems in Congress have passed. 749 00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:24.119 In Colorado, right now, it is illegal for a police 750 00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:26.440 officer to pick up the phone and call Immigration and 751 00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:28.719 Customs and say, hey, we got somebody in our communities 752 00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:31.519 causing problems, who's here illegally. 753 00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:34.639 Come to port this individual. That phone call is illegal 754 00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:35.079 to make. 755 00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:38.519 It became illegal in twenty nineteen, and my Democrat opponent 756 00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:42.440 voted for that piece of legislation. We've got to secure 757 00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:45.159 the border, we've got to empower our state and local 758 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:47.039 law enforcement, and we've got to get rid of these 759 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:50.159 defund the police, pro crime policies that the progressive left, 760 00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:52.719 to include my opponent, has championed. 761 00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:57.360 You know, some in Congress have said, look, we're even 762 00:38:57.440 --> 00:38:58.960 and I believe, and I don't want to put words 763 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:01.360 in her mouth, but I believe I've heard Lauren Voebert 764 00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:07.119 support this notion which is defunding sanctuary cities, defunding sanctuary states. 765 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:09.840 Would that be something that you would support as a 766 00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:13.840 threat in order to rescind these laws that you're talking 767 00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:17.320 about right now, kind of force the hand of Colorado lawmakers, 768 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:20.000 because we've just seen that when threatened with something like 769 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:23.480 two ballot initiatives on property taxes, they can be brought 770 00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:26.000 to heal just a little bit, right, Is that something 771 00:39:26.039 --> 00:39:26.679 you would support? 772 00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:32.119 So I swore three oaths to uphold and defend the 773 00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:35.679 United States Constitution, US Army, Colorado Army, and National Garden. 774 00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:37.320 As an our Battle police officer had. 775 00:39:37.239 --> 00:39:39.480 Deployed to combat zone for the better part of a 776 00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:42.679 year to uphold and defend the US Constitution, which barely 777 00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:47.440 clearly states that the US Constitution, and all federal laws 778 00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:50.320 made in accordance thereof are the supreme law of the land. 779 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:53.840 So yeah, absolutely, when you have states like Colorado that 780 00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:58.559 blatantly ignore what the federal government is doing when they're 781 00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:01.079 trying to secure the border, and when we have folks 782 00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:03.440 like immigration and Customs and the Border Patrol, and the 783 00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:06.119 State of Colorado comes along and says, nah, we're not 784 00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:08.079 going to even let our state and local. 785 00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:10.840 Law enforcement officers work with their federal counterparts. 786 00:40:11.320 --> 00:40:13.559 That's a major problem, and that's something that we need 787 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:17.119 to address at the congressional level as part of the 788 00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:20.559 broader conversation about how do we secure the border, how 789 00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:23.559 do we make sure folks like my grandfather, you know, 790 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:26.599 who earned his citizenship in World War Two with two 791 00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:29.039 purple hearts, who wanted to be a part of the 792 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:29.800 American dream. 793 00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:31.360 How do we make sure that we keep the. 794 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:33.760 Bad folks out and that we continue to be that 795 00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:36.239 shining city on a hill for those folks who legally 796 00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:38.440 want to come here be a part of the American dream. 797 00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:40.719 And how do we make sure that those laws are 798 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:43.880 being enforced and respected by states? 799 00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:45.280 Colorado's not doing it. 800 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:48.000 They're a plaitant sanctuary state, and that's a big part 801 00:40:48.039 --> 00:40:48.519 of the problem. 802 00:40:48.840 --> 00:40:50.960 So let's shift gears just a little bit and talk 803 00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:54.199 about cost of living. Because cost of living has some 804 00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:58.039 national components to it, it also has some local components 805 00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:00.519 to it in terms of you know, housing and things 806 00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:02.679 of that nature. What do you see your role in 807 00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:05.960 Congress as how do you rein in the cost of 808 00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:07.480 living as a member of Congress. 809 00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:12.360 Yeah, so the first thing with the cost of living 810 00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:15.480 is just understanding the broader impacts, you know, the things 811 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:18.239 that have an impact on our economy. I'm sure we'll 812 00:41:18.239 --> 00:41:22.000 talk about this here in a minute, but we've brokened 813 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:26.119 a pretty historic agreement with the Libertarian Party here in Colorado, 814 00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:28.840 and one of the things that they talk about a 815 00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:31.559 lot is the fact that are literally our money supply, Right, 816 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:32.880 This is when we talk about inflation. 817 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:33.840 That's the money supply. 818 00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.920 The money supply is controlled by things like the Federal Reserve, 819 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:40.599 and we don't have a good understanding at the congressional 820 00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:43.239 level of how the Federal Reserve is doing some of 821 00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:47.000 its internal business. We need to have policies like auditing 822 00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:49.480 the Fed, but we also need to make sure that we're. 823 00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:53.239 Taking the handcuffs off of our economy. And so that's 824 00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:57.320 things like here in the eighth Congressional District energy agriculture. 825 00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:01.400 The eighth Congressional District has the fourth highest energy producing 826 00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:02.719 county in the nation. 827 00:42:03.159 --> 00:42:06.360 It has the eighth highest agricultural producing county in the 828 00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:09.119 nation in the north. And then the southern part of 829 00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:10.239 the district is. 830 00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.840 The commerce, the transportation, the road networks, the truckers that 831 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:18.639 are actually taking these raw materials, turning it into a 832 00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:21.559 usable good and distributing across the rest of Colorado. 833 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:25.320 It is a multi billion dollar driver for the region. 834 00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:27.960 But as we all know, when energy gets more expensive 835 00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:31.599 because of the laps of war on American energy, when 836 00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:36.000 agriculture gets more expensive because you know, and this isn't me, 837 00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:38.400 this is some of the farmers in the region that 838 00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:41.519 I've talked to that said that my Democrat opponent ass 839 00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:45.360 to the single most damaging bill in a decade or 840 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:49.000 Colorado agriculture. Guess what that drives up the cost of agriculture. 841 00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:51.360 All of these costs are passed on to consumers. 842 00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:54.199 So to get the cost of living under control, we. 843 00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:56.719 Also need to make sure that we're focused on things 844 00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:59.719 like taking the handcuffs, the red tape of the bureaucracy 845 00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:05.079 of our economy, producing American energy, producing American agriculture, and 846 00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:08.599 then allowing our transportation networks to be able to actually 847 00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:11.079 process and get that stuff to market. When you can 848 00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:14.719 do that cheaper and more efficient by cutting red tape, 849 00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:18.519 that drives costs down for Americans, that empowers our economy. 850 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:21.599 That's how we make Colorado in the eighth Congressional District 851 00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:22.639 in an affordable place. 852 00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:25.039 Those are the things that I support. My opponent, as 853 00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:27.679 we said, she's voted against all of those things. She's 854 00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:32.119 a pro big government, pro red tape democrat, you know, 855 00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:32.519 one of the. 856 00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:34.920 Things that has not really come to the United States yet, 857 00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.199 but I do worry about on a consistent basis when 858 00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:40.440 it comes to agriculture. We've seen this attack in Europe 859 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:45.840 on nitrogen based fertilizers. We've seen farmers in certain parts 860 00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:48.320 of Europe being told that they can only plant a 861 00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:52.159 certain number of crops, which is so counterintuitive too, when 862 00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:54.840 you have to feed people, To tell farmers that they 863 00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:59.559 can't use the products that help food grow. How, I mean, 864 00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:02.199 what do you think about that kind of stuff? Because 865 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:03.719 I think that's all part of the green New deal 866 00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:04.079 as well. 867 00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:09.239 Yeah, absolutely, my opponent is one hundred percent bought into 868 00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:10.079 the Green New Deal. 869 00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:15.039 She costs this district billions of dollars in the energy sector. 870 00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:18.880 Energy and agriculture go hand in hand. When diesel goes up, 871 00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:21.559 agriculture becomes more expensive and you pay more for that 872 00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:24.639 at the store. So she's cost this district billions and energy, 873 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:27.800 and exactly what you described is what she's done to agriculture. 874 00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:32.079 When you have government bureaucrats with no background in agriculture 875 00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:36.639 who are then micromanaging how Armors and ranchers literally the 876 00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:40.199 original stewards of the environment, because. 877 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:41.920 If they don't take care of their soil, if they 878 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:42.679 don't take care of. 879 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:44.519 The environment, if we don't have clean air and we 880 00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:47.239 don't have clean water, guess what else, You can't grow 881 00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:50.559 your crops as efficiently as if we did take care 882 00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:51.239 of the environment. 883 00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:56.239 Farmers and ranchers are the original stewards of our land, 884 00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:57.239 our water, our air. 885 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:02.000 It's in their best economic interests to take good care 886 00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:04.000 of those things, and that means we need to allow 887 00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:06.760 them the flexibility to be able to make those decisions, 888 00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:10.400 to be able to leverage emerging technologies, emerging trends, and 889 00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:14.000 when you have folks that, as you said, are micromanaging 890 00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:16.519 what they can and can't do, that has an incredibly 891 00:45:16.599 --> 00:45:20.960 negative impact not just on the cost of producing these goods. 892 00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:22.840 But it has a negative impact on the economy. 893 00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:25.440 Excuse me, it has a negative impact on the economy, 894 00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:28.239 but it has a negative impact on the environment as well. 895 00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:30.679 So it sounds to me, Gabe, and you know you 896 00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:33.840 can correct me if I'm wrong. You sound very sort 897 00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:36.519 of data and results driven. And if that's the case, 898 00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:40.280 I have to ask you about ethanol subsidies because ethanol 899 00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:45.199 subsidies have distorted a marketplace under the guise of giving 900 00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:48.559 us better energy efficiency, of energy efficiency and things of 901 00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:51.800 that nature that have not proven to be to work 902 00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:53.960 out the way that they have worked out. But the 903 00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:55.760 farm lobby is very strong and they don't want to 904 00:45:55.760 --> 00:45:58.760 give up their ethanol subsidies. Where do you stand on that, 905 00:45:58.840 --> 00:45:59.880 if you have an opinion at all. 906 00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:03.800 I like things that work. 907 00:46:03.880 --> 00:46:06.480 You know, when I was flying a Blackhawk helicopter overseas 908 00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:09.239 in a combat zone, things get really really simple. 909 00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:12.440 If it works, do it. If it doesn't work, don't 910 00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:15.360 do it. Because that's a really, really dumb reason. 911 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:17.599 To crash and explode a helicopter because you tried something 912 00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:20.320 that looked really good on paper but doesn't actually work 913 00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:23.559 in reality. And so that's where I stand on all 914 00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:26.400 of these you know, alternative forms of energy. If they work, 915 00:46:26.519 --> 00:46:27.920 let's do it absolutely. 916 00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:30.719 But if they don't work, if you have to continue 917 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:34.119 to subsidize and subsidize and subsidize them, then that's not 918 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:37.719 actually producing energy efficiency, that's not actually taking good care 919 00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:40.239 of our environment. I'll give you a precise example. 920 00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:44.719 Here in Colorado, we often hear about, you know, zero 921 00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:46.320 emission electric cars. 922 00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:48.519 Well, this isn't my data, this is the State of 923 00:46:48.559 --> 00:46:49.400 Colorado data. 924 00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:54.800 The electric grid in Colorado produces about fifty percent more 925 00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:59.480 carbon per megawatt of produced energy than just pure natural gas. 926 00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:02.639 So every time we're plugging something into the electrical grid 927 00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:05.239 you're in Colorado. Again, not my data, this is state data. 928 00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:07.960 Every time we plug something into the electrical grid in Colorado, 929 00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:11.400 it's actually producing fifty percent more carbon. 930 00:47:11.320 --> 00:47:13.639 For a unit of energy producer than if we just 931 00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:15.119 used natural gas. 932 00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:17.960 These are the conversations that we need to have to 933 00:47:18.119 --> 00:47:21.719 ensure that we're actually producing energy that were energy independent. 934 00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:24.000 And when we do those things, that actually work. 935 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:28.320 We can reduce our carbon footprint by having more natural 936 00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:30.199 gas right here in Colorado. 937 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:33.039 My opponent's opposed to it, she's voted against it. 938 00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:36.920 I support American energy because that actually lowers our carbon footprint. 939 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:38.960 Well, I'm speaking with Gabe Evans. He's running in the 940 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:42.440 eighth congressional district. And Gabe, not for nothing. If we 941 00:47:42.599 --> 00:47:45.280 really truly and we are one of the world's largest, 942 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:47.920 if not the world's largest energy producer now, but if 943 00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:51.960 we truly unleash our enemy our energy economy, it also 944 00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:55.280 cuts the knees out of some of our geopolitical foes, right. 945 00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:58.079 It cuts the knees out from under Russia, It cuts 946 00:47:58.079 --> 00:48:01.440 the knees out from under Saudi Rape who is an ally, 947 00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:03.559 but I don't trust him. I'm going to be perfectly honest. 948 00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:05.480 And that's one of the things that we don't talk 949 00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:10.119 about enough, is that if we truly really exploited all 950 00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:13.519 of our energy options, we would be able to not 951 00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:17.480 only power our own economy, but also create big problems 952 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:21.639 for Russia and for other bad actors around the world. 953 00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:24.960 Who's their entire economy is their oil economy. I mean, 954 00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:26.519 why don't we talk about that more? 955 00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:30.440 Oh, we need to talk about it more. And the 956 00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:32.760 big one that we've left out so far is China. 957 00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:36.840 China is making more and more stuff with dirty coal 958 00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:39.280 and with quite literally slave labor. 959 00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:41.159 So every time we're. 960 00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:44.880 Exporting jobs and energy production from the United States, it's 961 00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:47.039 going to places like China. 962 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:53.880 That are producing it again in an inhumane, environmentally catastrophic manner. 963 00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:56.519 And so we need to talk about that. We need 964 00:48:56.599 --> 00:48:58.280 to talk about how if we truly. 965 00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:00.480 Want to take care of the environment, we've got to 966 00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:03.119 make sure that we're bringing jobs, that we're bringing production, 967 00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:06.480 that we're bringing energy back to the United States. Because 968 00:49:06.519 --> 00:49:09.239 here we produce it more efficiently than anywhere else in 969 00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:12.199 the world, we produce it more humanely than anywhere else 970 00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:12.599 in the world. 971 00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:14.559 And if we're truly. 972 00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:18.480 Concerned about global you know, the global carbon footprint, what 973 00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:20.199 we need to do is make sure that we're not 974 00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:23.159 sending things to China where they produce it with five 975 00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:25.840 ten times the amount of carbon that we could do 976 00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:27.280 it with here in the United States. 977 00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:29.719 And the absolute worst part about all of this is 978 00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:34.880 that pollution blows right back here to Colorado. 979 00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:38.400 We've got satellites we can track where this stuff goes again. 980 00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:41.920 State of Colorado data says that seventy percent of the 981 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:46.880 air pollution in Colorado doesn't actually originate in Colorado. So 982 00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:50.440 when you have folks like my opponent that have blatantly 983 00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:55.280 voted numerous times against the American energy economy, they're not 984 00:49:55.360 --> 00:49:57.079 actually doing anything for the environment either. 985 00:49:57.119 --> 00:49:58.400 They're costing us jobs. 986 00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:01.800 But we're still reaping all of the pollution from places 987 00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:02.880 that produce it less. 988 00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:06.159 Efficiency and less responsibly, because it again, it blows right 989 00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:07.159 back here in Colorado. 990 00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:10.400 Your campaign, gab just got a really good shot in 991 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.960 the arm when the libertarian candidate in the eighth Congressional 992 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:17.480 district dropped out and has removed his name from the 993 00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:20.639 ballot and endorsed. You tell me about how that all 994 00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:21.199 came about. 995 00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:26.159 Well, it's what the American people want us to do. 996 00:50:26.320 --> 00:50:32.159 The American people want good government. They want responsible adults 997 00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:34.559 who can sit down, who can have a conversation, who 998 00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:37.400 can find and collaborate on the common ground. 999 00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:39.000 And then actually move things forward. 1000 00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:42.079 You know, that's what I tell everybody. I've buried entirely 1001 00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:44.679 too many friends in military and law enforcement. I've sworn 1002 00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:47.760 three oaths up to and including my life, so I 1003 00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:50.639 know those things that I will never compromise on because 1004 00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:52.760 I literally put my life on the line and I 1005 00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:56.079 buried friends who made the ultimate sacrifices stand for those things. 1006 00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:58.960 I know those things I'll never compromise when I can 1007 00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:03.639 collaborate with anybody, And that's what the Libertarian Party and 1008 00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:04.519 I did. 1009 00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:05.320 We sat down. 1010 00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:07.440 Of course, there was the original pledge a couple of 1011 00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:10.199 months ago. There were some things that we couldn't agree on, 1012 00:51:10.360 --> 00:51:14.119 but we sat down, we have the conversation. We realized, look, 1013 00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:16.559 we agree on about ninety percent of the stuff. So 1014 00:51:16.719 --> 00:51:20.119 we drafted a pledge two point zero that we could 1015 00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:23.559 both agree on, and that really does highlight those things 1016 00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:27.400 that we care about, small limited government, making sure that 1017 00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:30.880 we respect individual liberty, making sure that we're focused here 1018 00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:34.320 on the United States critical things like securing our borders, 1019 00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:35.400 and so. 1020 00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:38.880 By sitting down, by having that conversation. 1021 00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:41.039 Once again, what we've shown is that you know, I'm 1022 00:51:41.079 --> 00:51:43.360 willing to work with anybody that's focused. 1023 00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:43.639 On these issues. 1024 00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:48.920 The Libertarians were fantastic partners in promoting our shared visions 1025 00:51:48.960 --> 00:51:52.880 and ideals for things like small government, individual liberty, accountability 1026 00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:58.119 for federal agencies like the Federal Reserve, and moving the 1027 00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:02.039 ball forward, and so it truly is a you know, 1028 00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:05.119 we talked about the phrase bipartisan all the time. This 1029 00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:08.920 is really something now where I'm tripartisan. I've worked with 1030 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:12.239 the Libertarians, we've found that common ground. But as a 1031 00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:15.519 state legislator, you know, I'm in the Mike super minority 1032 00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:18.039 down at the state Capitol, nineteen Republicans to forty six 1033 00:52:18.119 --> 00:52:20.159 Democrats in the state House, and I still got almost 1034 00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:22.920 sixty percent of my bills passed because I'm able to 1035 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:25.719 work across the aisle there. That's what I'm focused on. 1036 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:27.960 How do we move the ball forward? How do we 1037 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:31.639 make sure that we're passing on to future generations the 1038 00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:36.559 same American dream that my grandfather mia Ethel gave to 1039 00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:38.599 me when he immigrated here to this country. 1040 00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:40.599 You know, I think you have to use the language 1041 00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:44.320 of today. You're polypolitical, that's what you are. You're not 1042 00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:47.960 you engage with all political parties there, Gabe, I do 1043 00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:50.119 want to ask you one question from our text line, 1044 00:52:50.159 --> 00:52:52.039 because I think it's a question that a lot of 1045 00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:53.920 people have and I bet you have a good answer 1046 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:56.360 for it. Hey, Mandy, please ask Gabe, what are we're 1047 00:52:56.400 --> 00:52:59.000 going to start seeing commercials from him. I live in 1048 00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:01.360 the eighth district. I've not seen a single one, but 1049 00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:04.719 I see one from his opponent every five minutes, And 1050 00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:07.320 I want to use that as a springboard to ask 1051 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:11.480 you about the challenges going on at the state party 1052 00:53:11.679 --> 00:53:15.199 and how that has affected your campaign in terms of 1053 00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:18.320 the support that you have gotten or not gotten from 1054 00:53:18.360 --> 00:53:20.639 the state campaign. It just kind of give me a 1055 00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:21.360 minute on that. 1056 00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:25.480 Yeah, So really two things there. 1057 00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:30.360 Number one, Conservatives, we are the fiscally responsible party. And 1058 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:32.320 so as you yourself said kind of at the beginning, 1059 00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:35.519 you know, after Labor Day is when folks start tuning in, 1060 00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:38.000 and so I'm not going to waste my money on 1061 00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:41.159 a bunch of campaigns in advertising before Labor Day. 1062 00:53:41.239 --> 00:53:44.000 So don't worry. The ads will be here as you. 1063 00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:44.960 Know, real quick. 1064 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:49.079 We're in like single digit days now, So the advertising 1065 00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:51.559 for for the Gabe Evans campaign is going. 1066 00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:53.039 To start your fast and furious. 1067 00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:55.079 But the other part of this is. 1068 00:53:56.760 --> 00:53:59.360 These things are expensive to be able to run a 1069 00:53:59.440 --> 00:54:02.320 good team. The ad is close to a million dollars 1070 00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:04.639 and so if anybody's listening to this wants to help 1071 00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:07.880 you keep me on the air again, we have enough 1072 00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:09.519 to get us on the air for quite a bit, 1073 00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:11.559 but if anybody wants to help keep us on the 1074 00:54:11.599 --> 00:54:14.239 air once we go on, elect Gaveevans dot com is 1075 00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:17.000 the website to elect g A v e e v 1076 00:54:17.119 --> 00:54:18.159 a ns dot com. 1077 00:54:18.760 --> 00:54:20.199 You can go there learn more about me. 1078 00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:22.800 There's a donate button there, and that's going to be 1079 00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:25.000 a really critical part of making sure that we get 1080 00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:28.519 our message out because folks are sick and tired of 1081 00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:32.679 the high prices, the high crime, the stentanyl crisis, the 1082 00:54:32.760 --> 00:54:37.039 border crisis that my Democrat opponent has voted lockstep with 1083 00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:38.920 the Biden Harris regime on. 1084 00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:41.920 Gave Evans is my guest, and when we talk about 1085 00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:44.800 the dumpster fire that is the state party right now, 1086 00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:48.000 I always say, find the candidates you like and give 1087 00:54:48.079 --> 00:54:50.519 them money. And if you like what gave Us had 1088 00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:52.679 to say today, take that money you might have donated 1089 00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:55.119 to the state party and put it directly into his 1090 00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:58.320 coffers so he can win the eighth congressional district. Gabe, 1091 00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:01.760 I think your race is in highly winnable. I think 1092 00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:04.199 you're the right candidate to win that race, and I 1093 00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:06.960 look forward to talking to you after the election, if 1094 00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:10.079 not before, to be able to congratulate you. On your victory. 1095 00:55:10.199 --> 00:55:12.599 So let's let's do the assumed clothes on that one 1096 00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:15.719 and and uh, we'll be in touch again before the election. 1097 00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:16.440 I can assure you. 1098 00:55:18.840 --> 00:55:20.639 Always great to be on with you, Mandy, Thanks so much. 1099 00:55:20.679 --> 00:55:21.079 All right. 1100 00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:23.480 That is Gabe Evans, and I put a link on 1101 00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:27.199 my blog to his website, so if you'd like to donate, 1102 00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:32.320 and trust me, guys, these candidates are dealing with no 1103 00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:34.920 support from the state party as it tries to sort 1104 00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:39.360 itself out, so this is really important that you go 1105 00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:43.079 ahead and donate directly to these candidates. If you like 1106 00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:44.960 what you're hearing, we'll be right back, Mandy. I'm a 1107 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:47.480 Democrat because we just interviewed Gave Evans from the eighth 1108 00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:50.840 congressional district race, and if you missed it, you can 1109 00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:54.559 always go to our mandysblog dot com page look for 1110 00:55:54.679 --> 00:55:57.000 latest posts and a Rod's going to put that podcast up. 1111 00:55:57.039 --> 00:55:59.920 If you live in the eighth congressional district, I'd love 1112 00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:03.000 you would share that podcast with people because I think 1113 00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:05.400 that is an incredibly winnable race and I actually think 1114 00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:10.800 Gave Evans is a fantastic candidate. I watched him for 1115 00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:14.000 the first time at the Weld County Women's rumbles that 1116 00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:17.559 they had, and he was debating Janet Joshi, who was 1117 00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:22.280 the carpetbagger from the Springs that was backed by Dave Williams. 1118 00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:26.639 And in that interview it became apparent to me very 1119 00:56:26.760 --> 00:56:30.119 quickly that Gabe had a really good handle on the 1120 00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:34.079 issues of the eighth Congressional District. And he wasn't just 1121 00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:37.639 saying things because he thought they would rile up the 1122 00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:40.960 crowd or be inflammatory. He's just very even keeled, has 1123 00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:43.480 a good head on his shoulders, shares a lot of 1124 00:56:43.519 --> 00:56:46.199 my same value systems. So I'm a big fan of 1125 00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:48.639 Gabe Evans. And yes, I know I misspelled Gabe on 1126 00:56:48.679 --> 00:56:50.199 the blog. I just didn't fix it yet. I put 1127 00:56:50.239 --> 00:56:54.480 Gabe and that that was an auto correct. So I 1128 00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:56.719 want to share this text message Mandy. I'm a Democrat, 1129 00:56:56.800 --> 00:56:59.400 but I actually don't care for Caraveo too much and 1130 00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:01.280 I'm considered voting for the guy. But I do have 1131 00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:04.199 a couple of questions. Hopefully maybe you can ask him 1132 00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:07.360 what is his stance on abortion too? How is he 1133 00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:10.519 going to come back Donald Trump if he's the party 1134 00:57:10.559 --> 00:57:14.079 of fiscal conservatism, Because Donald Trump led us to a 1135 00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:18.519 gigantic deficit. That is an absolutely fair criticism. First, on 1136 00:57:18.599 --> 00:57:21.280 the abortion issue, he has said he believes it is 1137 00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:24.480 a state issue to be decided at the state level. 1138 00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:28.280 He would be in favor personally of a ban on 1139 00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:31.840 abortion for everyone except in cases of rape, incest, and 1140 00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:34.599 the health of the mother. But he has essentially punted 1141 00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:37.719 and said it's a state issue. We know in Colorado 1142 00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:41.199 it is not going to be illegal. I don't know 1143 00:57:41.280 --> 00:57:43.400 if it ever will. I can't imagine the kind of 1144 00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:46.840 sea change it would have to happen here for abortion 1145 00:57:47.039 --> 00:57:49.400 to be limited in any way, shape or form in Colorado. 1146 00:57:49.519 --> 00:57:52.960 Because every time there's a ballot initiative, every time there 1147 00:57:53.039 --> 00:57:55.480 is an opportunity for Colorado's to weigh in at the 1148 00:57:55.519 --> 00:57:58.440 ballot or give their opinion through a vote, they have 1149 00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:02.000 shot down any of restrictions on abortion. Which is why 1150 00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:04.679 in Colorado it is legal to have an abortion up 1151 00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:06.960 to the day of birth. And for all of you 1152 00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:08.679 who are reaching for the text line to tell me 1153 00:58:08.719 --> 00:58:12.800 I'm wrong, it is not wrong. It happens here. And 1154 00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:16.079 there is a doctor in Boulder who specializes, I guess, 1155 00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:18.679 in late term abortions, and even on their website it 1156 00:58:18.800 --> 00:58:22.480 says mostly women do this because of a health issue. 1157 00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:27.239 Mostly got to pay attention to those qualifiers, so he 1158 00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:29.880 does not favor a federal abortion ban. I will say 1159 00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:32.480 that let's talk about the deficit buster for a second, 1160 00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:37.599 because the deficit buster is an accurate, absolutely accurate accusation 1161 00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:39.840 against Donald Trump. But it just pulled up some numbers 1162 00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:41.960 that I want to share and to give you some 1163 00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:45.679 perspective about why we have a thirty five thirty six 1164 00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:48.880 trillion dollar debt now because of deficit spending. And I 1165 00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:50.519 want to take you back to two thousand and nine. 1166 00:58:50.599 --> 00:58:52.280 Now we all know what happened to two thousand and eight. 1167 00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:56.880 The market absolutely crashed. We had a devastating great recession. 1168 00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:00.199 It was terrible, and the government's response was to print 1169 00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:03.880 a whole bunch of money and eventually set the table 1170 00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:06.519 for the inflation that we've had over the last couple 1171 00:59:06.519 --> 00:59:10.480 of years. Because inflation doesn't happen overnight. Although historically, and 1172 00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:12.599 this is accurate, I have looked it up and confirmed 1173 00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:15.559 that what I'm about to say is true every period 1174 00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:18.719 of and I don't ways say hyper inflation because we 1175 00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:21.760 didn't have hyperinflation. Hyper Inflation is when prices are going 1176 00:59:21.800 --> 00:59:24.719 up one hundred percent every day. We just had a 1177 00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:28.840 period of steep inflation. It is always preceded by a 1178 00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:31.480 flood of the money supply, and that's exactly what the 1179 00:59:31.559 --> 00:59:35.880 Federal Reserve did during COVID. They wanted the federal government 1180 00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:38.239 to be able to continue to spend like drunken monkeys, 1181 00:59:38.280 --> 00:59:41.360 which they did, and not have to pay the pipers. 1182 00:59:41.440 --> 00:59:44.280 So they dropped interest rates to darnaar zero and they 1183 00:59:44.360 --> 00:59:47.320 kept printing money so the federal government could spend it. 1184 00:59:48.079 --> 00:59:49.519 That was the whole thing. But let's go back to 1185 00:59:49.559 --> 00:59:53.000 two thousand and nine. Deficit spending in two thousand and 1186 00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:56.599 nine was one point four trillion dollars, twenty ten, one 1187 00:59:56.679 --> 00:59:59.880 point twenty nine trillion dollars, twenty eleven, one point three 1188 01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:04.719 trillion dollars, twenty twelve, one point oh seven seven trillion dollars. 1189 01:00:05.079 --> 01:00:07.239 And then in twenty thirteen we started to get interact 1190 01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:11.119 together a little bit, and we dropped down to just 1191 01:00:11.320 --> 01:00:17.519 six hundred and eighty billion dollars twenty fourteen, four eighty five, 1192 01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:20.400 and these are billions four forty two and twenty fifteen. 1193 01:00:20.400 --> 01:00:23.960 We're starting to make progress. Twenty sixteen, Donald Trump gets elected, 1194 01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:27.639 the deficit was five hundred and eighty five billion dollars 1195 01:00:27.719 --> 01:00:31.159 twenty seventeen up to six sixty five, twenty eighteen, up 1196 01:00:31.199 --> 01:00:34.519 to seven seventy nine, twenty nineteen, up to nine eighty four. 1197 01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:40.000 Now I felt somewhat vindicated in this because I was 1198 01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:42.000 the one that told everybody in this listening audience that 1199 01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:44.519 Donald Trump was not going to do anything about the deficit. 1200 01:00:44.719 --> 01:00:47.280 And people told me I was crazy. Donald Trump was 1201 01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:49.480 going to fix that too. He did not fix that too. 1202 01:00:49.880 --> 01:00:54.840 And that takes us to twenty twenty COVID COVID spending 1203 01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:59.320 three point one three to two trillion dollars in one 1204 01:00:59.400 --> 01:01:02.239 year in spending, and twenty twenty one was even not 1205 01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:05.840 even worse, but certainly not better, two point seven to 1206 01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:10.039 seven trillion dollars in deficit spending, twenty twenty two to 1207 01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:13.360 one point three in deficit spending. And if you remember, 1208 01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:20.000 there was, you know, a midterm and deficit spending in 1209 01:01:20.039 --> 01:01:25.199 twenty twenty three one point six trillion dollars. Both Donald 1210 01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:29.199 Trump and Joe Biden suck on the deficit. Suck. They're 1211 01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:31.760 a huge part of why we have these massive deficits. 1212 01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:35.360 But they're not the only ones. Everyone in Congress is 1213 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:38.880 responsible for these deficits. And by the way, these deficits, 1214 01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:43.199 they're not made up money, they're our money. Deficits have 1215 01:01:43.400 --> 01:01:45.800 to be paid back in a few ways. Number One, 1216 01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:49.239 you can raise taxes, that's how you pay off the debt. 1217 01:01:49.599 --> 01:01:53.880 Or you can print more money, which causes inflation, which 1218 01:01:53.960 --> 01:01:58.519 is a tax on the American people as well. And 1219 01:01:58.639 --> 01:02:01.440 you can also cut spending, which obviously Washington has no 1220 01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:06.079 desire to do so. Trump exploded the deficit during COVID, 1221 01:02:06.719 --> 01:02:09.480 but the Biden administration has been very slow to bring 1222 01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:12.559 it down. No one is good and Kamala Harris is 1223 01:02:12.599 --> 01:02:15.440 out there running around talking about how she is going 1224 01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:18.679 to give up certain first time home buyers twenty five 1225 01:02:18.760 --> 01:02:21.480 thousand dollars, which is going to inflate the housing market 1226 01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:26.280 even more. She's talking about all these giveaway programs she's 1227 01:02:26.320 --> 01:02:29.440 trying to buy votes. She is an absolute disaster on 1228 01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:34.000 the debt and deficit, and Donald Trump is not much better. 1229 01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:37.360 The whole tariff thing that he's talking about is just 1230 01:02:37.440 --> 01:02:42.400 a dumb idea. It's pretty much failed every time it's try. 1231 01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:44.800 But yet here we are again trying to figure out 1232 01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:46.920 a way to bring back the manufacturing jobs to the 1233 01:02:47.039 --> 01:02:50.639 United States instead of trying to help people pivot to 1234 01:02:50.840 --> 01:02:52.880 the service spased economy that we have right now. I 1235 01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:55.159 would love to have more manufacturing jobs. I would love it. 1236 01:02:55.159 --> 01:02:57.960 I think it would be amazing because manufacturing jobs are 1237 01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:02.320 a ladder to the middle class for people. But the 1238 01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:05.159 reality is is I don't think they're coming back. It's 1239 01:03:05.239 --> 01:03:10.800 too expensive to produce things here. The regulatory structure, minimum wages, 1240 01:03:11.280 --> 01:03:13.800 things of that nature. It just makes it hard to 1241 01:03:13.880 --> 01:03:18.039 compete with China, which pays people nothing and doesn't worry 1242 01:03:18.079 --> 01:03:23.199 about environmental concerns. They don't care. So I'd love to 1243 01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:25.159 tell you that Donald Trump is going to be amazing 1244 01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:28.079 on the deficit. I don't think he will be. But 1245 01:03:28.239 --> 01:03:32.840 all that being said, I do know people that are 1246 01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:37.920 on Trump's economic advisory team, and they Steve Moore being 1247 01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:42.159 one of them. He's a major deficit hawk. So if 1248 01:03:42.159 --> 01:03:44.400 there's a chance that someone's going to get through to 1249 01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:48.280 either one of these candidates, the advisors around Kamala Harris 1250 01:03:48.679 --> 01:03:51.719 suck and the advisors around Donald Trump on the economy 1251 01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:55.199 are much better on these things. So if you're gonna 1252 01:03:55.239 --> 01:03:57.320 throw a dart board, you know, throw a dart against 1253 01:03:57.360 --> 01:03:59.920 the dart board and shooes, which one's going to be better. 1254 01:04:00.360 --> 01:04:03.760 You have to look at the whole picture. And there's nothing, 1255 01:04:04.119 --> 01:04:07.239 not one single thing in the Kamala Harris economic Plan 1256 01:04:07.679 --> 01:04:10.519 that says we're going to do anything about the deficit. Nothing. 1257 01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:13.960 So I don't trust either of them. I wish I 1258 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:16.800 had better news. I wish I could forcefully make the 1259 01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:19.199 case that Donald Trump was going to be a deficit 1260 01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:21.440 hawk and do something about the debt, because guys, we're 1261 01:04:21.519 --> 01:04:25.239 headed for a debt crisis. We're headed for the kind 1262 01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:30.639 of crisis that makes us no longer the world's reserve currency. 1263 01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.079 We're headed for the crisis that ends our reign as 1264 01:04:35.119 --> 01:04:38.159 the world's leader when it comes to finances and economics. 1265 01:04:39.400 --> 01:04:41.760 And it's going to be very very ugly when it happens, 1266 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:45.639 and it's only getting worse. And the American people don't 1267 01:04:45.719 --> 01:04:48.559 care because they're too stupid to know what it looks 1268 01:04:48.679 --> 01:04:52.119 like when all of this debt crisis actually happens, because 1269 01:04:52.119 --> 01:04:54.840 they've been so poorly educated about economics and the effects 1270 01:04:55.239 --> 01:04:57.599 that they think. Some of these young people think socialism 1271 01:04:57.719 --> 01:04:59.920 is the way to go. It's almost like they didn't 1272 01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:02.679 see all of the ways that socialism has failed. And 1273 01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:06.400 before anybody writes to me about the Nordic countries, if 1274 01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:10.000 you want to have a high services government like they 1275 01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:12.639 have in the Nordic countries, then get ready to open 1276 01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:17.159 your wallet, not rich people's wallets, because if you look 1277 01:05:17.159 --> 01:05:20.000 at the tax structure in those high service, high tax 1278 01:05:20.119 --> 01:05:25.960 Nordic countries, everybody pays. Everybody pays twenty percent of their income. 1279 01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:29.519 Everybody pays at least twenty percent of their income. Some 1280 01:05:29.639 --> 01:05:32.880 of the tax burdens are over fifty five percent. So 1281 01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:34.480 if you want to if you want to high services 1282 01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:36.400 like that, then you got to pay for it, because 1283 01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:38.639 there's not enough rich people in the world to pay 1284 01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:41.079 all of those taxes, all of those prices for all 1285 01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:44.880 of those people. Melatonin. No, I have no problem sleeping. 1286 01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:48.159 Oh okay, that's good. That's because you're young. I enjoy 1287 01:05:48.199 --> 01:05:51.159 it while you can. Okay, every morning when you wake 1288 01:05:51.199 --> 01:05:52.719 up well arrested, I want you to just say, you 1289 01:05:52.800 --> 01:05:54.800 know what, God, thank you for that. I know you're 1290 01:05:54.840 --> 01:05:56.519 going to strip it away from me as I get older, 1291 01:05:56.639 --> 01:05:57.719 but you know, thanks for that. 1292 01:05:57.880 --> 01:05:58.000 Now. 1293 01:05:58.559 --> 01:06:03.239 Well, I have news and this is actually oh dag nabbit. 1294 01:06:04.159 --> 01:06:06.760 I didn't put the link on this story crap anyway, 1295 01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:10.199 I know what it says. So studies have shown that 1296 01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:14.360 melatonin is not a good answer for long term sleep 1297 01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:21.960 disorders because melatonin is has been used somewhat successfully if 1298 01:06:22.039 --> 01:06:24.920 you travel a lot and you need to reset your 1299 01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:27.239 circadian rhythms when you get back, or you get to 1300 01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:29.159 wherever you're going and you want to jump into their 1301 01:06:29.239 --> 01:06:32.320 times or jump back into your own time zone. But 1302 01:06:33.280 --> 01:06:35.519 there's been no long term studies that have shown that 1303 01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:38.960 it's been helpful for sleep issues in the long term. 1304 01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:42.159 I've known this for years because everybody's like, when I 1305 01:06:42.199 --> 01:06:44.840 say I don't sleep well, I'm actually sleeping better now. 1306 01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:48.079 The Soda Weight Lost plan not only helped me lose weight, 1307 01:06:48.519 --> 01:06:50.760 but it helped me understand that there are certain things 1308 01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:52.960 I cannot eat at night and go to sleep. It's 1309 01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:56.679 just not I got to eat early, which I started 1310 01:06:56.760 --> 01:06:59.360 with my vocal cord issues. I try to be done 1311 01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:03.400 eating by life. And then it taught me a lot 1312 01:07:03.480 --> 01:07:05.320 about what to eat to be able to sleep. So 1313 01:07:05.440 --> 01:07:07.360 now I'm sleeping better than I have in a really 1314 01:07:07.480 --> 01:07:10.920 long time. But I've tried melatonin, and it's not a 1315 01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:14.480 good answer for long term sleep disorders. But the article 1316 01:07:14.519 --> 01:07:16.039 which I will go back and find because it was 1317 01:07:16.079 --> 01:07:18.760 actually very interesting. Talked about the fact that a vast 1318 01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:22.320 majority of Americans we're not sleeping well. And then a 1319 01:07:22.480 --> 01:07:26.840 Rod sends me this video today on the show or 1320 01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:31.719 this morning rather about a nightly routine that can change 1321 01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:35.079 your life. And it's very simple things, and it's amazing 1322 01:07:35.880 --> 01:07:41.559 how many of us in our society we always look 1323 01:07:41.639 --> 01:07:47.519 for a pharmacological solution first, and the pharmacological solutions are 1324 01:07:47.599 --> 01:07:52.320 not perfect. Now on occasion, I have used ambient in 1325 01:07:52.400 --> 01:07:56.159 the past. Chuck was a long time ambient user until 1326 01:07:56.239 --> 01:08:01.559 it made him into a horrible person, horrible version of himself. 1327 01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:05.199 And I finally was like, you have to stop taking 1328 01:08:05.239 --> 01:08:07.679 this because you're becoming a horrible person. And he was 1329 01:08:08.360 --> 01:08:11.320 thankfully wise enough to recognize that I'm not just saying 1330 01:08:11.360 --> 01:08:13.960 that to be mean. But then I found out that's 1331 01:08:14.159 --> 01:08:16.840 very common with Zambian if you take it too long. 1332 01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:19.600 But then, how many of us are doing the things 1333 01:08:19.640 --> 01:08:21.479 on a daily basis? And if you've listened to the 1334 01:08:21.479 --> 01:08:23.319 show for a long time, I want you to hear 1335 01:08:23.359 --> 01:08:26.079 what I'm about to say in Michelle's Oehner's voice. How 1336 01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:28.239 many of us are doing the things that we need 1337 01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:31.359 to do every single day to be a happy, healthy human. 1338 01:08:31.880 --> 01:08:35.119 Are you getting exercise, are you going outside? Are you 1339 01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:38.159 spending time with friends and family? Are you feeding your 1340 01:08:38.199 --> 01:08:41.760 body nutritious foods? Are you setting yourself up for success? 1341 01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:44.720 For sleeping at night? If you're on your phone until 1342 01:08:44.760 --> 01:08:46.880 eleven o'clock and then you put your phone down and 1343 01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:49.079 you're like, oh, I can't sleep, well, you can't sleep 1344 01:08:49.119 --> 01:08:51.159 because you just had the entire world in your hand. 1345 01:08:52.840 --> 01:08:54.439 And Aaron had sent me this video, and I was like, 1346 01:08:54.479 --> 01:08:59.119 these five little things really would make a difference, just 1347 01:08:59.239 --> 01:09:02.039 from disc connecting from the phone early enough and reading 1348 01:09:02.079 --> 01:09:03.920 a book. I know some people say I don't really 1349 01:09:04.039 --> 01:09:08.000 like to read. Great even better, you'll only have to 1350 01:09:08.039 --> 01:09:10.920 read for a few minutes before you fall asleep. Set 1351 01:09:10.960 --> 01:09:13.479 your plan for tomorrow. I do this every night. I 1352 01:09:13.520 --> 01:09:15.680 look at my calendar for the next day, kind of 1353 01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:18.119 have my mental order of the way things are going 1354 01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:22.039 to go. And these little things just setting yourself up 1355 01:09:22.079 --> 01:09:25.560 for success. It's all about that. It's all about having 1356 01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:27.760 a great bed. Go to NMAX for that. I think 1357 01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:31.960 we solve that problem a long time ago. So when 1358 01:09:32.039 --> 01:09:36.239 we get back in the next hour at pray there's 1359 01:09:36.279 --> 01:09:39.359 coming on you, guys. The real estate market is very 1360 01:09:39.640 --> 01:09:43.199 interesting right now. We have a lot of buyers sitting 1361 01:09:43.239 --> 01:09:45.760 on the sidelines in what I call ready set mode, 1362 01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:51.239 ready set, ready set, ready set, and they're just waiting 1363 01:09:51.399 --> 01:09:54.239 for a rate drop, which I and I'm not usually like, 1364 01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:58.920 I'm certain about this. I feel very good based on 1365 01:09:59.279 --> 01:10:02.439 the labor number adjustment down. They took away a million 1366 01:10:02.560 --> 01:10:05.840 jobs roughly that they had said had been created, which 1367 01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:11.079 we're not so that. And inflation is it's manageable now. 1368 01:10:11.239 --> 01:10:13.640 It's like two point I don't know, two point seven 1369 01:10:13.800 --> 01:10:16.159 percent whatever, not the two percent that the Fed wants, 1370 01:10:16.239 --> 01:10:18.279 but it's much lower than it was a few years ago. 1371 01:10:18.600 --> 01:10:20.119 So I think we're gonna get a rate cut in 1372 01:10:20.199 --> 01:10:23.359 September and maybe another one in December. So we're gonna 1373 01:10:23.359 --> 01:10:25.640 talk to Ed Pratherer at two thirty about what to expect. 1374 01:10:25.640 --> 01:10:27.279 If you've been thinking about selling, you're ready to go. 1375 01:10:28.119 --> 01:10:29.920 We'll be talking about the best time to put that 1376 01:10:30.039 --> 01:10:32.880 home on the market when we get back. I want 1377 01:10:32.920 --> 01:10:35.439 to give a big shout out to Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, 1378 01:10:35.800 --> 01:10:38.199 that Gwyneth Paltrow, And you're not gonna believe what for 1379 01:10:38.720 --> 01:10:39.600 I'm doing that. Next. 1380 01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:43.159 The Mandy Connell Show is sponsored by Belle and Pollock 1381 01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:44.680 Accident and injury lawyers. 1382 01:10:45.359 --> 01:10:48.039 No, it's Mandy Connell. 1383 01:10:48.119 --> 01:10:50.000 And donall. 1384 01:10:50.920 --> 01:11:03.600 On Klama, got Nicety stood fray by Connell. 1385 01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:08.239 Sad Babe. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third hour of 1386 01:11:08.279 --> 01:11:10.479 the show. I'm your host, Mandy Connell. And that, of 1387 01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:13.560 course is a rod You can call him Anthony Rodriguez. 1388 01:11:15.159 --> 01:11:18.640 No airhorn for that, none, But it's a one time thing, 1389 01:11:19.119 --> 01:11:21.920 um dog double check it. Oh my god, you totally 1390 01:11:21.960 --> 01:11:22.680 want to bug people. 1391 01:11:22.760 --> 01:11:26.520 No, I would absolutely, positively never do multiple air horns. Everyone. 1392 01:11:27.119 --> 01:11:34.039 There you go, there you go. So I want to 1393 01:11:34.039 --> 01:11:36.720 talk about Gwyneth Paltrow today because you guys know I 1394 01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:39.279 always talk about Hollywood. That's a lie. I don't always, 1395 01:11:40.239 --> 01:11:45.319 But Gwyneth Paltrow. Our friend Christian Toto at Hollywood intoto 1396 01:11:45.439 --> 01:11:49.199 dot com wrote a really good column called Gwyneth Paltrow 1397 01:11:49.319 --> 01:11:53.479 on hamas where are the Feminists Now? We got news 1398 01:11:53.600 --> 01:11:58.279 this past weekend that six hostages who had survived almost 1399 01:11:58.279 --> 01:12:02.760 a year in captivity. One one of them, heirsh Goldberg 1400 01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:08.000 poland his parents, just appeared at the Democratic National Convention. 1401 01:12:09.199 --> 01:12:12.199 He lost part of his arm in the initial attack 1402 01:12:12.279 --> 01:12:16.199 on October seventh, but had been seen fairly recently, I guess, 1403 01:12:16.359 --> 01:12:19.439 and they knew he was alive. Hammas, when they were 1404 01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:22.760 faced with the idf coming through the tunnel that they 1405 01:12:22.800 --> 01:12:26.199 were holding these people in, apparently brutally murdered them just 1406 01:12:26.359 --> 01:12:29.239 before Israel was able to rescue them in what is 1407 01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:33.920 absolutely yet another war crime committed by Hamas. Now, of course, 1408 01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:38.640 the world's reaction, including our idiot president Joe Biden, was well, 1409 01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:43.279 Israel's not dooming enough to get the hostages back, not hey, 1410 01:12:43.479 --> 01:12:46.319 what a war crime by Hamas, or hey, it's been 1411 01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:49.359 Hamas who's turned down all of the ceasefire deals that 1412 01:12:49.439 --> 01:12:51.880 had been offered, even the ones that Israel a great too. 1413 01:12:53.960 --> 01:12:54.159 Well. 1414 01:12:54.479 --> 01:12:58.039 Gwyneth Paltrow went to Instagram and she posted the following. 1415 01:12:59.520 --> 01:13:02.159 She said, to the families of each hostage whose life 1416 01:13:02.279 --> 01:13:04.840 was stolen, I have thought of you every day for 1417 01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:09.319 eleven months, but today I send you my heart. There 1418 01:13:09.399 --> 01:13:13.319 are still seventeen women being held by Hamas. Where are 1419 01:13:13.399 --> 01:13:18.640 the feminists? She added the hashtag hashtag rape is not resistance. 1420 01:13:20.680 --> 01:13:23.399 The silence from Hollywood and the feminist community on this 1421 01:13:23.560 --> 01:13:27.359 has been deafening. The same women who ran around and 1422 01:13:27.439 --> 01:13:29.119 told us that we had to believe all women, no 1423 01:13:29.199 --> 01:13:32.840 matter how ridiculous their stories were. And I'm talking about 1424 01:13:32.920 --> 01:13:35.640 Christine GLASI Ford there on that one. We had to 1425 01:13:35.720 --> 01:13:38.239 believe all women. And boy howdy, they were ready to 1426 01:13:38.239 --> 01:13:41.239 support women who came out after Harvey Weinstein with a 1427 01:13:41.479 --> 01:13:44.520 like a pack of wild animals. Not to say he 1428 01:13:44.560 --> 01:13:48.560 didn't deserve it, but they were united in their condemnation 1429 01:13:49.000 --> 01:13:53.319 of that. And yet we know, we absolutely know, because 1430 01:13:53.399 --> 01:13:57.720 Harmas live streamed the rapes of women on October seventh. 1431 01:13:59.279 --> 01:14:03.039 We know that women were raped, and yet Hollywood has 1432 01:14:03.079 --> 01:14:07.399 been very, very very quiet. So I guess we're supposed 1433 01:14:07.439 --> 01:14:12.319 to be believe all women unless they're raped by organizations 1434 01:14:12.319 --> 01:14:14.479 that are anti Israel, in which case, go for it. 1435 01:14:16.239 --> 01:14:16.880 Just go for it. 1436 01:14:19.039 --> 01:14:22.119 Even the Babylon Bee Christian points out beautifully. Even the 1437 01:14:22.159 --> 01:14:26.319 Babylon Bee jumped on this by tweeting out a photo 1438 01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:30.880 of Bill Cosby wearing a Hamas headband, and it says 1439 01:14:31.119 --> 01:14:34.399 Bill Cosby joins Hamas so feminists will stop condemning him 1440 01:14:34.399 --> 01:14:39.319 for rape. He likes that when it's a little too 1441 01:14:39.359 --> 01:14:43.399 close to home. By the way, there are there are 1442 01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:45.760 women in Hollywood that have been sounding the alarm. Deborah 1443 01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:51.359 Messing who is Jewish, Galgado who is Israeli. They've been 1444 01:14:51.399 --> 01:14:54.119 out there screaming about this stuff for a very long time. 1445 01:14:56.039 --> 01:14:58.439 And it's a very good question. It's a good column. 1446 01:14:58.479 --> 01:15:01.800 It's very short. You can read it at the blog 1447 01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:04.439 or at Hollywood intoto dot com. But that's not the 1448 01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:08.600 only feminist story we got on the blog today. We 1449 01:15:08.680 --> 01:15:11.960 have a couple of things about feminism today on the blog, 1450 01:15:12.600 --> 01:15:17.479 and one of them, I guess that's not really about feminism. 1451 01:15:19.159 --> 01:15:22.760 But I will share this story very very quickly because 1452 01:15:23.239 --> 01:15:25.359 it's bothered me since I saw it a couple of 1453 01:15:25.439 --> 01:15:29.199 days ago, or yesterday maybe. The Douglas County Sheriff's office 1454 01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:32.279 over the Labor Day weekend, they were doing increased enforcement. 1455 01:15:32.319 --> 01:15:34.760 They were pulling over people for drunk driving, and they 1456 01:15:34.840 --> 01:15:40.800 shared the story of a woman. Friday afternoon, at three pm, 1457 01:15:42.239 --> 01:15:45.800 deputies responded to a call about a vehicle weaving erratically 1458 01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:50.640 before crashing. The driver reportedly attempted to leave the scene 1459 01:15:51.199 --> 01:15:54.119 by ramming the victim's car to push it out of 1460 01:15:54.159 --> 01:15:57.800 the way. Turns out that this driver was a forty 1461 01:15:57.880 --> 01:16:00.560 year old mom from Castle Pine, so you know how 1462 01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:03.359 we know she's a mom because her two children we're 1463 01:16:03.399 --> 01:16:06.079 in the back seat. And I'm not going to name 1464 01:16:06.159 --> 01:16:09.119 her here, although the Castle Rock Police Department did name her, 1465 01:16:09.279 --> 01:16:12.159 because I'm not trying to shame this woman. I'm trying 1466 01:16:12.199 --> 01:16:14.680 to make a bigger point, and it's an important point 1467 01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:18.479 that has been bothering me for a really, really long time. 1468 01:16:19.399 --> 01:16:24.000 At three pm on a Friday, this woman's preliminary breath 1469 01:16:24.079 --> 01:16:29.159 test showed a blood alcohol content of point three three 1470 01:16:29.840 --> 01:16:34.600 four in her car, a full bottle of wine, five 1471 01:16:34.880 --> 01:16:39.319 open alcoholic beverage containers, and two young children in the backseat. 1472 01:16:42.039 --> 01:16:45.840 This story is so horrifying to me, but in my mind, 1473 01:16:46.000 --> 01:16:51.279 this is the natural outcome of mommy wine culture in 1474 01:16:51.359 --> 01:16:54.239 the United States of America. And maybe wine's not your thing. 1475 01:16:54.840 --> 01:16:57.520 Maybe you're a bourbon gow, maybe you're a whiskey goal, 1476 01:16:57.720 --> 01:17:00.319 maybe you're a beer gal, or maybe you're a dad 1477 01:17:00.920 --> 01:17:04.279 who's driving around with your children in your back seat 1478 01:17:04.319 --> 01:17:07.760 while you're wasted. But I want to talk about women 1479 01:17:07.920 --> 01:17:11.319 right now, because women have now caught up to men 1480 01:17:11.479 --> 01:17:17.399 almost in the category of people dying from alcoholism related diseases, 1481 01:17:19.600 --> 01:17:22.880 and it's very frustrating for me. When I go to 1482 01:17:23.239 --> 01:17:25.800 a gift shop or I go to a women's section 1483 01:17:25.920 --> 01:17:27.520 because I'm trying to buy a gift for my friends, 1484 01:17:27.800 --> 01:17:32.159 and everything says it's wine o'clock sometime, or I drink 1485 01:17:32.319 --> 01:17:35.560 because of you. Yeah, Mommy drinks because of you. That 1486 01:17:35.720 --> 01:17:38.239 was one of my least favorite T shirts I've ever seen. 1487 01:17:39.279 --> 01:17:41.800 And don't get me wrong, I have, you know, lived 1488 01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:43.600 through a portion of my life where alcohol was a 1489 01:17:43.640 --> 01:17:46.439 big part of it. But when I decided to have 1490 01:17:46.479 --> 01:17:50.319 a child, I decided it was time to make different choices. 1491 01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:53.640 And luckily, I've never struggled with addiction of any kind. 1492 01:17:53.720 --> 01:17:56.159 I've never been in that situation, so I don't want 1493 01:17:56.199 --> 01:17:59.359 to downplay how challenging it is to get to overcome 1494 01:17:59.399 --> 01:18:02.920 an addiction. But the thing is, I know so many 1495 01:18:03.039 --> 01:18:08.239 women and men who have overcome their addictions that I 1496 01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:11.000 know it can be done. And I y'all, I said 1497 01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:12.840 a prayer last night for this woman. I don't know her, 1498 01:18:13.520 --> 01:18:16.199 I've never seen her before. I wouldn't know her if 1499 01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:18.399 she walked up and slapped me in the face. I 1500 01:18:18.479 --> 01:18:21.079 said a prayer last night that God would tell her 1501 01:18:21.399 --> 01:18:25.319 that this was her wake up call because her children 1502 01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:29.760 were in the back seat and she's driving them around 1503 01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:35.319 wasted at three o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday. Please, 1504 01:18:35.720 --> 01:18:39.319 like I, if you know her, please get her help 1505 01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:43.600 support her in her sobriety because she's going to die 1506 01:18:43.960 --> 01:18:46.399 and she may take somebody out with her. Right if 1507 01:18:46.439 --> 01:18:48.159 she's going to drive this drunk with her kids in 1508 01:18:48.199 --> 01:18:51.000 the car, she probably thought she was just buzzed. I'm 1509 01:18:51.079 --> 01:18:55.359 just a little buzzed. It's fine. People die at point 1510 01:18:55.479 --> 01:18:58.920 four blood alcohol content. She was at point three three 1511 01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:03.479 four with their kids in the car. Think about this stuff, 1512 01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:07.520 you guys. Your kids deserve you at your best. And 1513 01:19:07.680 --> 01:19:11.199 ask anyone who grew up the child of an alcoholic, 1514 01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:14.159 and they will let you know you are not at 1515 01:19:14.199 --> 01:19:16.439 your best. If you're suffering through that, there's so much 1516 01:19:16.479 --> 01:19:20.000 help out there. Just get it, accept it, and move 1517 01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:22.479 on with your life. We now know there is going 1518 01:19:22.560 --> 01:19:25.479 to be a butt load of ballot initiatives to consider 1519 01:19:25.600 --> 01:19:29.720 this year fourteen. And that's just for the state. We're 1520 01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:33.159 going to have about ten more in Denver alone. Now 1521 01:19:33.319 --> 01:19:36.560 I've already started working on my voter guide of I'm 1522 01:19:36.600 --> 01:19:38.479 doing it this year because there's so much stuff to 1523 01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:40.439 vote on, and I know that many of you don't 1524 01:19:40.479 --> 01:19:43.920 have the time to dig through this stuff on your own, 1525 01:19:44.199 --> 01:19:48.319 so it will definitely be a big voter guide that 1526 01:19:48.399 --> 01:19:51.600 should be out in the next couple of weeks because realistically, 1527 01:19:51.640 --> 01:19:57.319 you guys, ballots drop very very shortly beginning of October, 1528 01:19:58.520 --> 01:20:00.479 so we're a month away from ballots drop. This is 1529 01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:04.119 why I am concerned about the Harris Walls campaign being 1530 01:20:04.159 --> 01:20:06.119 able to stay out of the public eye long enough 1531 01:20:07.000 --> 01:20:11.119 to continue pulling the wall over the eyes of the 1532 01:20:11.199 --> 01:20:16.399 voters and really showing them what they're about. Interesting stuff 1533 01:20:16.520 --> 01:20:19.199 going on there. We'll see if that strategy actually works. 1534 01:20:19.640 --> 01:20:22.000 So that's on the blog today with a list of 1535 01:20:22.079 --> 01:20:23.439 kind of what you can look at if you want 1536 01:20:23.439 --> 01:20:28.319 to start investigating yourself. There's a column today, you guys, 1537 01:20:29.479 --> 01:20:32.239 I just am so sick of this because I'm pretty 1538 01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:35.560 sure that this exact same thing was said in twenty twenty, 1539 01:20:37.000 --> 01:20:40.920 the headline if Republicans want to win, they need Trump 1540 01:20:41.039 --> 01:20:45.640 to lose big to dominate the country once more. Republicans 1541 01:20:45.680 --> 01:20:48.359 need to hasten the move to a post Trump party. Well, 1542 01:20:48.439 --> 01:20:52.439 that didn't work in twenty twenty, did it. Don't get 1543 01:20:52.520 --> 01:20:55.039 me wrong, I'd be you guys. I don't need to 1544 01:20:55.079 --> 01:20:57.960 repeat how I feel. You know, I would love to 1545 01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:00.680 be able to vote for any other Republican candidate at 1546 01:21:00.680 --> 01:21:03.199 this point, but it's he's the candidate. So what am 1547 01:21:03.199 --> 01:21:06.319 I gonna do. I'm not sure he'd go away if 1548 01:21:06.359 --> 01:21:10.079 he lost again. I mean, granted, he's going to be 1549 01:21:10.199 --> 01:21:13.399 super old in four years, but I don't know if 1550 01:21:13.439 --> 01:21:17.720 that would stop him. So there's a whole column about 1551 01:21:17.760 --> 01:21:20.439 why it would be better for Republicans, and Trump lost 1552 01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:23.800 and lost handily. I guess that's supposed to encourage Republicans 1553 01:21:23.840 --> 01:21:27.039 to not vote or something. I honestly couldn't get through 1554 01:21:27.079 --> 01:21:28.600 the whole column, and I put it there just so 1555 01:21:28.760 --> 01:21:31.520 I wouldn't be the only one who saw it. So 1556 01:21:31.680 --> 01:21:35.760 there you go. If you are curious at all about 1557 01:21:35.920 --> 01:21:37.880 the this is kind of like a two minute drill 1558 01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:41.560 right now, with a little longer conversations than I normally do. 1559 01:21:42.239 --> 01:21:44.960 If you're curious about the Redo of Casabanita, are you 1560 01:21:45.000 --> 01:21:47.359 going to see this movie by Trey Stone and Matt Parker. 1561 01:21:47.399 --> 01:21:48.760 You're gonna go see it a rod because I think 1562 01:21:48.800 --> 01:21:53.720 I am the movie. Yeah, Casabanita, Mia Moore. It is 1563 01:21:53.800 --> 01:21:58.760 a movie about the Redo of Casabanita, and it's a 1564 01:21:58.800 --> 01:22:01.399 whole documentary and I'm playing at the Alamo Draft House 1565 01:22:01.479 --> 01:22:02.840 this weekend. I don't know if it's going to have 1566 01:22:02.920 --> 01:22:04.520 a long run or if it's just like this weekend, 1567 01:22:05.079 --> 01:22:06.680 but I want to see it. I think it's interesting 1568 01:22:07.439 --> 01:22:09.479 to me. If it's just this weekend, can't do that. 1569 01:22:09.760 --> 01:22:12.199 But well, you got what you How are you working 1570 01:22:12.319 --> 01:22:14.840 this weekend? What are you work? You're working everything every day, 1571 01:22:15.119 --> 01:22:17.079 every hour. Well that's. 1572 01:22:18.520 --> 01:22:21.159 Because you're anthety a little kbp I action this weekend 1573 01:22:21.359 --> 01:22:23.159 really all kinds of craziness. 1574 01:22:23.720 --> 01:22:28.720 Excellent, Yeah, excellent, indeed, So that is going to be 1575 01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:33.960 out very shortly, and trying to find out. I don't 1576 01:22:33.960 --> 01:22:35.800 know if it's an extended run or not. I'll find 1577 01:22:35.800 --> 01:22:37.760 out from the Alamo Draft House. You like the Alamo 1578 01:22:37.880 --> 01:22:39.600 Draft House? You ever been there? 1579 01:22:40.680 --> 01:22:41.239 I like it. 1580 01:22:41.560 --> 01:22:45.800 I'm literally losing my mind between difference between the Alamo 1581 01:22:45.920 --> 01:22:47.600 Draft House and that's where they show, that's where the 1582 01:22:47.960 --> 01:22:50.399 people walk through with the food, right they bring you 1583 01:22:50.479 --> 01:22:53.680 home like during the entirety of the movie E. 1584 01:22:55.319 --> 01:22:57.920 Done, it's different before the movie starts, it reminds me 1585 01:22:58.000 --> 01:23:00.840 of this place in Orlando that during my lost decade 1586 01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:02.920 of my twenties, there was a and it's probably still there. 1587 01:23:02.960 --> 01:23:06.640 The Enzeon Theater in winter Park, small theater only had 1588 01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:09.680 two screens and they still allowed smoking. And this was like, 1589 01:23:09.880 --> 01:23:11.960 you know, in the early nineties, and my friends and 1590 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:13.560 I all smoked at the time, so we would sit 1591 01:23:13.600 --> 01:23:15.119 in the back like the bad kids on the bus 1592 01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:18.000 and smoke and drink and eat food. It was glorious, 1593 01:23:18.239 --> 01:23:20.680 absolutely glorious. I like the Alamo Draft House. I think 1594 01:23:20.680 --> 01:23:22.920 they do a good job for what it is. My 1595 01:23:23.079 --> 01:23:26.079 problem is is their chairs are too comfortable, and if 1596 01:23:26.119 --> 01:23:27.960 I'm going to fall asleep watching a movie, It's going 1597 01:23:28.000 --> 01:23:30.199 to be in the comfort of my own home. Okay, 1598 01:23:31.399 --> 01:23:33.479 I'm not going to pay to go fall asleep in 1599 01:23:33.479 --> 01:23:35.520 You're a movie theater. I remember the food being pretty 1600 01:23:35.560 --> 01:23:37.720 dang good. The food was very good last time I 1601 01:23:37.800 --> 01:23:39.760 was there. I haven't been there in a while. We 1602 01:23:39.920 --> 01:23:42.800 just we never started going back to the movies after COVID. 1603 01:23:43.760 --> 01:23:45.920 You know, when the boys were young and now they're 1604 01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:48.520 in their early thirties. When the boys were young, the 1605 01:23:48.640 --> 01:23:51.760 movies were what we did as a family, right. We 1606 01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:54.960 went to the movies. We saw all the movies, and. 1607 01:23:55.039 --> 01:23:57.600 We just haven't done that with Q We do the 1608 01:23:57.640 --> 01:24:00.920 movies pretty often. I would say, yeah, on average, maybe 1609 01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:03.199 once a month. There's just not a lot of movies 1610 01:24:03.239 --> 01:24:07.920 that I want to see. And that's all the superhero movies. 1611 01:24:07.640 --> 01:24:11.000 All the time. We go see those we go see 1612 01:24:11.359 --> 01:24:14.479 and the superhero movies I enjoy. Except you know, Deadpool 1613 01:24:14.600 --> 01:24:16.439 wasn't for me. No, just not for me. Oh you 1614 01:24:16.479 --> 01:24:19.000 did see it. I saw the first twenty five minutes 1615 01:24:19.119 --> 01:24:20.960 of the first one and was like, yep, I'm not 1616 01:24:21.039 --> 01:24:22.399 in the demo for this. Oh yeah, and the third 1617 01:24:22.439 --> 01:24:25.279 one is the most and the most obnoxious. I'm not 1618 01:24:26.840 --> 01:24:28.600 I'm not, I'm not down. It's just not It's not 1619 01:24:28.720 --> 01:24:32.239 for me. So yeah, but but I you know, maybe 1620 01:24:32.319 --> 01:24:34.720 we should start going. But here's the thing, Like I 1621 01:24:34.880 --> 01:24:37.880 just watched the other day the News and daya movie, 1622 01:24:38.239 --> 01:24:42.600 uh Challengers, the tennis movie. Yeah, it was not good. 1623 01:24:43.199 --> 01:24:45.880 And I love Zundeia. I think she's very, very talented 1624 01:24:46.039 --> 01:24:48.399 and I really like her. I love hers, MJ and 1625 01:24:48.479 --> 01:24:53.960 Spider Man. This movie was just awful. You know, when 1626 01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:57.119 you when you can't like anybody in the movie because 1627 01:24:57.119 --> 01:25:00.119 all the characters are so unlikable, You're like, why why 1628 01:25:00.119 --> 01:25:02.920 don't have a movie about all of these unlikable characters. 1629 01:25:04.239 --> 01:25:06.520 It's just ugh, why do I want to? Although have 1630 01:25:06.600 --> 01:25:09.520 I told you you need to watch Tulsa King on Paramount? No, 1631 01:25:09.680 --> 01:25:12.720 you're busy, You're busy telling me about real steel. Sylvester. Oh, 1632 01:25:12.800 --> 01:25:15.359 of course, was just such a great movie, Sylvester Salone. 1633 01:25:15.760 --> 01:25:20.920 It's Tulsa King was created by Taylor Sheridan, who did Yellowstone. 1634 01:25:21.239 --> 01:25:24.079 And I'm not a huge Slice Salone fan, but he 1635 01:25:24.399 --> 01:25:26.800 is so good in this series. 1636 01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:29.760 So you're barking up the wrong tree because we've tried 1637 01:25:29.840 --> 01:25:30.920 Yellowstone a couple times. 1638 01:25:31.119 --> 01:25:32.800 We did too, and I never watched the whole thing, 1639 01:25:32.880 --> 01:25:35.560 and do it. This is really good. It's about Slice 1640 01:25:35.560 --> 01:25:38.439 Salone being a mobster who gets out of prison after 1641 01:25:38.520 --> 01:25:42.199 a twenty five year stretch and basically gets excommunicated by 1642 01:25:42.239 --> 01:25:47.319 the mob to Tulsa to create a criminal organization in Tulsa. 1643 01:25:47.880 --> 01:25:51.600 It is wildly entertaining. There are some really dark humor 1644 01:25:51.680 --> 01:25:55.039 jokes in there that I burst out laughing. So Tulsa 1645 01:25:55.159 --> 01:25:57.800 King Market, it's on Paramount. When we get back, let's 1646 01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:00.880 talk to my realtor, Ed Praiser. Well, how is the 1647 01:26:00.920 --> 01:26:03.920 market going? If you've been sitting on your house waiting 1648 01:26:04.039 --> 01:26:06.399 to sell we're going to tell you when that right 1649 01:26:06.479 --> 01:26:08.119 time might be. We're going to do that next. What 1650 01:26:08.439 --> 01:26:11.319 is happening in the real estate market? I decided to 1651 01:26:11.439 --> 01:26:15.119 check with my realtor, Ed Praether because he knows what's 1652 01:26:15.159 --> 01:26:17.760 going on. Good afternoon, I must say, good morning. 1653 01:26:17.680 --> 01:26:22.159 Ed Hi, ed hie many, thank you for having me, well, thanks. 1654 01:26:21.960 --> 01:26:23.840 For coming on, because you and I had a chat 1655 01:26:23.920 --> 01:26:28.199 yesterday and the market is I'm just going to use 1656 01:26:28.239 --> 01:26:32.399 the word weird right now. Is that a fair assessment 1657 01:26:32.560 --> 01:26:36.039 because things are sort of like everybody's stuck on ready set, 1658 01:26:36.359 --> 01:26:40.439 ready set, ready set, waiting for rates to drop. So 1659 01:26:42.039 --> 01:26:43.680 right now, let's talk about the state of the real 1660 01:26:43.760 --> 01:26:46.479 estate market as it is. There's some good news in 1661 01:26:46.640 --> 01:26:47.760 terms of availability. 1662 01:26:49.319 --> 01:26:51.760 Well, I think you're right on. You know, we've used 1663 01:26:51.800 --> 01:26:56.079 the word weird, strange, you know, somewhat volatile, and that's 1664 01:26:56.119 --> 01:26:58.760 because you know, we've been talking about looking at hoping 1665 01:26:58.880 --> 01:27:02.640 for the fit to make cuts. We see that happening 1666 01:27:02.720 --> 01:27:04.960 sooner than later, but the cuts aren't here yet. And 1667 01:27:05.119 --> 01:27:07.199 so just like you said, we're sort of we're all 1668 01:27:07.319 --> 01:27:09.359 waiting for these and of course we have sort of 1669 01:27:09.399 --> 01:27:11.960 these golden handcuffs. As far as you know, a lot 1670 01:27:12.039 --> 01:27:14.000 of sellers, even with the need to sell, have a 1671 01:27:14.079 --> 01:27:17.439 hard time letting that three percent mortgage go. You know, 1672 01:27:18.119 --> 01:27:21.000 the FED men. At the end of July, we've seen 1673 01:27:21.039 --> 01:27:23.199 a lot of activity though, So you know what I 1674 01:27:23.279 --> 01:27:26.199 mean by that is is more mortgage applications. You know, 1675 01:27:26.279 --> 01:27:30.680 as we foresee and expect a soft landing is going 1676 01:27:30.760 --> 01:27:33.359 to be the reality or hopefully is the reality, as 1677 01:27:33.399 --> 01:27:36.079 well as showings and even offers. But I'll tell you 1678 01:27:36.279 --> 01:27:40.720 it is really specific to property in micro market, meaning 1679 01:27:40.840 --> 01:27:43.640 kind of the neighborhood. You know, is you got to 1680 01:27:43.640 --> 01:27:45.760 be real careful because if you're not positioned well, if 1681 01:27:45.760 --> 01:27:48.079 you're not priced well, the home could easily sit. 1682 01:27:48.560 --> 01:27:51.079 And let's talk about pricing as a part of this, 1683 01:27:51.239 --> 01:27:53.800 because you just mentioned the golden handcuffs, so the mortgage rates. 1684 01:27:54.279 --> 01:27:58.359 But it seems that people who's neighbor and I'm just 1685 01:27:58.359 --> 01:28:00.159 going to use a round number, maybe your neighbors were 1686 01:28:00.439 --> 01:28:03.119 sold home for seven hundred thousand dollars two years ago. 1687 01:28:03.920 --> 01:28:07.039 Your home may not be getting seven hundred thousand dollars 1688 01:28:07.199 --> 01:28:10.399 right now, but the sellers are not ready to make 1689 01:28:10.520 --> 01:28:12.119 those sort of price adjustments. 1690 01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:16.600 Well, you're right on, and it's like we spoke about yesterday. 1691 01:28:16.760 --> 01:28:18.880 You know, I think the word that comes to mind 1692 01:28:18.920 --> 01:28:21.920 when I when we talk about pricing is resilience in 1693 01:28:22.319 --> 01:28:25.439 the metro area. You know, we saw we're going to 1694 01:28:25.520 --> 01:28:28.560 have our August data here within a day or two, 1695 01:28:28.640 --> 01:28:30.840 so certainly I'll fill you in. But you know, between 1696 01:28:31.319 --> 01:28:34.399 June and July, we saw the medium close price basically 1697 01:28:34.520 --> 01:28:38.000 hold steady. And when we see the amount of active inventory, 1698 01:28:38.880 --> 01:28:41.800 you'll peak above that ten thousand units that we haven't 1699 01:28:41.800 --> 01:28:46.119 seen in gosh ten years. But pricing to stay steady 1700 01:28:46.119 --> 01:28:48.319 and where it's at, it's it's incredible. And I think, 1701 01:28:48.399 --> 01:28:51.800 you know, just like you had said, what we're seeing is, 1702 01:28:52.239 --> 01:28:54.479 you know, sellers are not willing to make those those 1703 01:28:54.600 --> 01:28:58.359 price decreases to force the sale. And and because of that, 1704 01:28:58.760 --> 01:29:01.279 I think in many cases you have folks that want 1705 01:29:01.359 --> 01:29:03.119 to sell but may not need to sell. 1706 01:29:03.319 --> 01:29:05.439 Right As a realtor, I think that's got to be 1707 01:29:05.479 --> 01:29:08.079 a nightmare when you go and talk to a potential 1708 01:29:08.159 --> 01:29:10.079 client and they're like, you know, we just want to 1709 01:29:10.119 --> 01:29:12.720 put it on the martgage and see what's going to happen. 1710 01:29:13.039 --> 01:29:16.000 As someone who's trying to make a sale, that's got 1711 01:29:16.079 --> 01:29:18.880 to be like, eh, not your favorite customer to have. 1712 01:29:20.760 --> 01:29:24.560 Everybody's different, and we absolutely understand that, and I think 1713 01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:27.119 what we want is we understand you've been to this 1714 01:29:27.319 --> 01:29:30.720 mandate that bringing a house to market doesn't just happen, 1715 01:29:31.039 --> 01:29:33.239 and the last thing we're going to do is present 1716 01:29:33.319 --> 01:29:37.439 a home if it's not ready to be presented, and shoot, 1717 01:29:37.840 --> 01:29:41.359 with each situation being different, It's okay if we're in 1718 01:29:41.520 --> 01:29:45.600 the range of, hey, here's what we suspect the market 1719 01:29:45.640 --> 01:29:49.840 will bear, it's one thing. It's another thing if a 1720 01:29:49.960 --> 01:29:52.520 seller doesn't want to put the time in and is 1721 01:29:52.600 --> 01:29:55.319 trying to be opportunistic and hit a price that just 1722 01:29:55.479 --> 01:29:58.720 isn't realistic. And we're not doing anybody any any service 1723 01:29:59.439 --> 01:30:01.920 by taking something like that on and having someone go 1724 01:30:02.079 --> 01:30:05.760 through the thrashing around and on market, having showings, having 1725 01:30:06.159 --> 01:30:08.600 if we're far off from day one right on what 1726 01:30:08.720 --> 01:30:11.000 that pricing is and what the reality is going to be. 1727 01:30:11.520 --> 01:30:13.800 So are you finding with the people that you're meeting with? 1728 01:30:14.319 --> 01:30:16.359 What are there? And I'm sure there's a million different 1729 01:30:16.479 --> 01:30:18.399 but I'd love to know kind of a general feel. 1730 01:30:18.840 --> 01:30:21.840 Why are people looking to sell? Are they looking to downsize, 1731 01:30:21.840 --> 01:30:24.199 are they looking to upsize? Are they moving? What are 1732 01:30:24.199 --> 01:30:26.520 you hearing from the people that are in the market 1733 01:30:26.600 --> 01:30:27.279 to sell their homes. 1734 01:30:28.439 --> 01:30:30.720 It's a great question, and just like you said, you know, 1735 01:30:30.840 --> 01:30:35.319 every there's so many different reasons. You know, we see 1736 01:30:35.319 --> 01:30:37.600 a lot of folks that are leaving the state, and 1737 01:30:37.960 --> 01:30:40.960 you know, sometimes it's gosh, we hear things like traffic, 1738 01:30:42.199 --> 01:30:45.000 We hear things around the cost of living. You know, 1739 01:30:45.039 --> 01:30:47.800 we have a lot of folks moving to the south. 1740 01:30:47.960 --> 01:30:52.039 We hear the Carolinas a lot, and frankly, you know, 1741 01:30:52.119 --> 01:30:54.399 we have seen just the cost of things go up 1742 01:30:54.960 --> 01:30:58.319 across the board. And so you know, although many folks 1743 01:30:58.720 --> 01:31:02.000 don't need to sell, we see a lot of folks 1744 01:31:02.079 --> 01:31:04.600 that want to just to make it a little bit 1745 01:31:04.680 --> 01:31:06.840 more bearable. And maybe those are folks that have a 1746 01:31:06.920 --> 01:31:10.520 long standing mortgage that is, you know, not the sixth 1747 01:31:10.640 --> 01:31:14.680 or the seven that we've seen as of recent and 1748 01:31:14.800 --> 01:31:18.760 sometimes it is sort of in the last eighteen months 1749 01:31:18.840 --> 01:31:20.520 or the last two years they've purchased the home and 1750 01:31:20.640 --> 01:31:24.640 kind of realized that, hey, this equation doesn't work. I 1751 01:31:24.680 --> 01:31:28.279 think the majority of the time we see folks downsizing, 1752 01:31:29.439 --> 01:31:32.039 but it really does. It varies across the board. 1753 01:31:32.560 --> 01:31:34.840 So if you're talking to someone who's kind of one 1754 01:31:34.880 --> 01:31:36.680 of those people saying, look, you know, we're trying to 1755 01:31:36.760 --> 01:31:41.199 decide whether we're going to list right now. We're expecting 1756 01:31:41.680 --> 01:31:44.520 and I'm trying to not be overly confident, but I 1757 01:31:44.680 --> 01:31:47.920 expect the FED to drop the interest rates at least 1758 01:31:48.880 --> 01:31:51.279 twenty five basis points, which is basically a quarter of 1759 01:31:51.359 --> 01:31:55.399 a percent in September. Is Do you feel the same way, 1760 01:31:55.439 --> 01:31:59.399 and if so, is that going to unleash buyers who 1761 01:31:59.479 --> 01:32:01.760 are able to say, look, okay, you know what it's 1762 01:32:01.880 --> 01:32:05.319 it's not two percent but five Maybe low sixes is 1763 01:32:05.359 --> 01:32:07.399 a manageable thing, because I've seen mortgages in the low 1764 01:32:07.479 --> 01:32:08.239 six is now. 1765 01:32:09.800 --> 01:32:12.760 Absolutely, and we're seeing stuff quoted in the high fives 1766 01:32:12.840 --> 01:32:15.920 right now. Okay, there's sort of this unspoken rule, and 1767 01:32:16.000 --> 01:32:19.600 we've heard it again and again, especially lately, that you know, 1768 01:32:19.760 --> 01:32:21.840 we need to see rates in the mid five for 1769 01:32:22.000 --> 01:32:25.640 people to really want to make that jump board to 1770 01:32:25.880 --> 01:32:29.239 let go of that three percent mortgage. So you know, 1771 01:32:29.319 --> 01:32:33.359 we're watching really closely. But I do expect that activity 1772 01:32:33.439 --> 01:32:35.600 will continue to increase, and we've seen it since the 1773 01:32:35.720 --> 01:32:38.000 end of July, you know, quite frankly, and with that, 1774 01:32:38.520 --> 01:32:42.039 you are certainly in correlation to those mortgage rates going down. 1775 01:32:42.600 --> 01:32:46.279 You know, the narrative and understanding when we look at 1776 01:32:46.640 --> 01:32:49.680 the cuts that we expect is that to some extent, 1777 01:32:49.840 --> 01:32:52.319 it's already baked into the rate. You know that that 1778 01:32:52.800 --> 01:32:56.039 those cuts we're all looking at and expecting the same 1779 01:32:56.119 --> 01:32:59.000 thing that September, you know, twenty five basis points, maybe 1780 01:32:59.079 --> 01:33:01.840 fifty basis points. But I think the reality is is 1781 01:33:01.840 --> 01:33:04.319 that we're going to see a big jump in activity 1782 01:33:05.359 --> 01:33:08.000 as people become more optimistic about the future. 1783 01:33:08.079 --> 01:33:08.399 You're right. 1784 01:33:08.560 --> 01:33:11.199 I talked yesterday about you know, it's not just the 1785 01:33:11.319 --> 01:33:14.399 rate itself, it's the news around the rate. It's the 1786 01:33:14.560 --> 01:33:18.239 news around the future and the economy and having optimism 1787 01:33:18.399 --> 01:33:21.000 about you know, hey, maybe this is still a little 1788 01:33:21.039 --> 01:33:23.760 bit high now, but it can work and in the 1789 01:33:23.880 --> 01:33:27.000 future it's going to be lower. And it looks to 1790 01:33:27.159 --> 01:33:29.439 me and we expect that that is going to be 1791 01:33:29.600 --> 01:33:31.720 the case, and hopefully that starts in just a couple 1792 01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:32.680 of weeks when the dead needs. 1793 01:33:33.079 --> 01:33:36.239 You started this conversation by talking about, you know, neighborhood 1794 01:33:36.319 --> 01:33:39.640 specific Some neighborhoods are selling faster than others. But if 1795 01:33:39.680 --> 01:33:43.079 you've got money that you'd like to invest in real estate, 1796 01:33:43.159 --> 01:33:45.840 are there any deals right now? Are people sitting on 1797 01:33:45.960 --> 01:33:48.319 those prices waiting for them to come down. 1798 01:33:50.560 --> 01:33:54.680 I would say that there are always deals. The deals 1799 01:33:54.840 --> 01:33:58.319 come up when it's very specific to that seller. So 1800 01:33:58.399 --> 01:34:00.800 it's hard for me to say that in one area 1801 01:34:00.920 --> 01:34:04.920 there's more deals than another area because someone that you know, 1802 01:34:05.000 --> 01:34:08.199 we deal with folks in certain cases that have to 1803 01:34:08.319 --> 01:34:10.840 get to family in another state very quickly, and of 1804 01:34:10.920 --> 01:34:14.199 course with a fdicial duty, it is our job, it 1805 01:34:14.359 --> 01:34:16.720 is our responsibility to get them the very most. But 1806 01:34:16.840 --> 01:34:18.800 if they don't want to bring it to market, you know, 1807 01:34:18.920 --> 01:34:21.520 that may be, you know, create an opportunity for a 1808 01:34:21.640 --> 01:34:24.880 buyer and someone who who potentially has the ability to 1809 01:34:24.960 --> 01:34:27.680 take care of some of those repairs that certain sellers 1810 01:34:27.760 --> 01:34:30.520 don't want to mess with, or bringing to market, and 1811 01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:33.119 or even bringing it to market at all. We have 1812 01:34:33.199 --> 01:34:35.039 a lot of folks that just say, hey, you know, 1813 01:34:35.079 --> 01:34:37.119 we need to do this quickly. You know, do you 1814 01:34:37.239 --> 01:34:39.119 have somebody that might be interested in And of course, 1815 01:34:39.199 --> 01:34:41.159 like you and I have time, We've got a big database, 1816 01:34:41.279 --> 01:34:42.920 so you know, most of the time we can get 1817 01:34:42.960 --> 01:34:45.239 that done at a price that makes sense for everybody. 1818 01:34:45.560 --> 01:34:47.439 So I wanted to ask you about the buyers that 1819 01:34:47.520 --> 01:34:50.920 you're seeing. Are these first time home buyers, because I 1820 01:34:50.960 --> 01:34:53.560 feel like there are a lot of i'll call them 1821 01:34:53.640 --> 01:34:56.680 middle millennials who are ready to buy a hole right 1822 01:34:56.840 --> 01:34:59.359 and they've maybe been sitting out waiting for those lower 1823 01:34:59.399 --> 01:35:01.560 mortgage rates. What do you seeing on the buy side 1824 01:35:01.600 --> 01:35:02.800 who is out there shopping. 1825 01:35:04.159 --> 01:35:06.920 We do see a lot of first time home buyers, 1826 01:35:06.960 --> 01:35:09.520 and I think, you know, first time home buyers want 1827 01:35:09.640 --> 01:35:13.119 to want to own a home because the concept of 1828 01:35:13.239 --> 01:35:15.279 owning a home has been something that they're you know, 1829 01:35:15.359 --> 01:35:17.640 part of their goals. They're part of something that they 1830 01:35:17.760 --> 01:35:20.479 have set forth in what they want for their lives, 1831 01:35:20.560 --> 01:35:24.640 and they're less concerned about, you know, some of the 1832 01:35:25.319 --> 01:35:29.920 complexities and implications. I think that maybe some of us, 1833 01:35:30.039 --> 01:35:32.279 like you and I many kind of overthink, yeah, we're 1834 01:35:32.319 --> 01:35:34.119 trying to guess what's going to happen here and there. 1835 01:35:34.159 --> 01:35:37.960 I mean, you know, frankly speaking, we believe fully, you 1836 01:35:38.039 --> 01:35:41.319 know that in the next few quarters you're going to 1837 01:35:41.359 --> 01:35:44.760 see rates come down, and so, you know, we've seen 1838 01:35:44.840 --> 01:35:48.479 first time home buyers be pretty active, gosh over the 1839 01:35:48.600 --> 01:35:51.319 last couple of years, because we remember what it was 1840 01:35:51.399 --> 01:35:53.880 like in twenty twenty one. You could not you couldn't 1841 01:35:53.880 --> 01:35:56.119 get an offer accept and especially as a home, first 1842 01:35:56.159 --> 01:35:58.199 time home buyer, when you don't have a big down payment, 1843 01:35:59.079 --> 01:36:02.760 it's even so we are seeing a lot of opportunistic 1844 01:36:02.840 --> 01:36:06.640 folks take advantage. And you know, those people so far 1845 01:36:06.840 --> 01:36:12.520 have done quite well because they are taking action when 1846 01:36:12.840 --> 01:36:14.800 when some of us are overthinking things. 1847 01:36:15.039 --> 01:36:19.239 Right, sometimes making a decision is better than waffling about 1848 01:36:19.279 --> 01:36:22.560 a decision, especially when I actually think ed and you 1849 01:36:22.640 --> 01:36:25.000 and I talked about this yesterday. I think when we 1850 01:36:25.119 --> 01:36:27.439 have the first rate cut, the market heats up. If 1851 01:36:27.479 --> 01:36:30.520 there is another rate cut in December, which that's it's 1852 01:36:30.600 --> 01:36:33.039 more debatable than the rate cut that I'm pretty certain 1853 01:36:33.159 --> 01:36:35.399 is going to happen in September. But if that rate 1854 01:36:35.479 --> 01:36:38.960 cut happens in December, then it becomes a feeding frenzy 1855 01:36:39.199 --> 01:36:43.800 and and that's when it becomes again a seller's market. 1856 01:36:43.840 --> 01:36:46.159 And if you're sitting on the sidelines now as a 1857 01:36:46.239 --> 01:36:50.439 potential buyer, I think you're missing opportunities that are out 1858 01:36:50.479 --> 01:36:53.000 there right this second. Because what do they say, ed, 1859 01:36:53.479 --> 01:36:56.399 you date the rate, you marry the house, right, you 1860 01:36:57.079 --> 01:36:59.479 don't have to worry about marrying the rate the rate 1861 01:36:59.560 --> 01:37:02.680 you can reach later. So I've just been telling like 1862 01:37:02.840 --> 01:37:04.680 young people that I know have been sitting on the sidelines. 1863 01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:07.960 I'm like, I would really look right now because you 1864 01:37:08.079 --> 01:37:10.159 don't want to be in it when everybody else is 1865 01:37:10.239 --> 01:37:12.720 in it. You want to be in it before everybody. 1866 01:37:12.319 --> 01:37:15.119 Else is in it. And I think you're absolutely right. 1867 01:37:15.279 --> 01:37:17.920 Yeah, So if you want to buy or sell, it's 1868 01:37:17.960 --> 01:37:19.479 time to call Ed pray Or He and his team 1869 01:37:19.520 --> 01:37:22.359 are the absolute best. Ed give everybody your phone number. 1870 01:37:24.119 --> 01:37:27.319 Uh seven two oh six five nine four nine five nine, 1871 01:37:27.319 --> 01:37:29.840 excuse me, seven to sixty five oh four nine five nine. 1872 01:37:30.119 --> 01:37:32.399 You know we are here to inform, you know, in 1873 01:37:32.439 --> 01:37:34.479 a big part of this man you said, some folks 1874 01:37:34.520 --> 01:37:37.159 are considering selling maybe is it now? Is it in 1875 01:37:37.239 --> 01:37:39.399 the future? And on the same side is buying if 1876 01:37:39.479 --> 01:37:42.600 nothing else? You know, we are really focused and really 1877 01:37:42.680 --> 01:37:45.760 committed and just empowering our folks of information, you know, 1878 01:37:45.880 --> 01:37:49.319 so they can make an educated choice for themselves. And 1879 01:37:49.399 --> 01:37:51.960 I'll tell you what. As a buyer right now, you know, 1880 01:37:52.159 --> 01:37:55.079 you've got to be disimprinted in what's a fit because 1881 01:37:55.079 --> 01:37:59.760 there's great opportunities and you don't need to bend over backwards. 1882 01:38:00.199 --> 01:38:01.720 And it's been a long time since we have been 1883 01:38:01.760 --> 01:38:04.920 able to say that. So if your discipline, you've got 1884 01:38:05.039 --> 01:38:07.279 more inventory than you used to, and I think it's 1885 01:38:07.279 --> 01:38:09.479 a great time to start the process. 1886 01:38:09.720 --> 01:38:12.479 Well, I do know that you know, I'm on reeltor 1887 01:38:12.520 --> 01:38:15.119 dot com all the time, and like really, for someone 1888 01:38:15.159 --> 01:38:17.800 who's not actively in the market, I know way more 1889 01:38:17.880 --> 01:38:20.640 about what houses are sitting and where than I should, Okay, 1890 01:38:20.960 --> 01:38:23.399 And I do know that there are especially if you're 1891 01:38:23.399 --> 01:38:25.039 a first time home buyer looking to get into the 1892 01:38:25.119 --> 01:38:28.079 condo market, now is the time to get into the 1893 01:38:28.119 --> 01:38:31.279 condo market because there's a lot of condos on the 1894 01:38:31.319 --> 01:38:34.479 listing sites right now, so there are opportunities. And Ed 1895 01:38:34.520 --> 01:38:37.359 would be the guy I would always recommend Edprather dot com, 1896 01:38:37.640 --> 01:38:39.840 Ed p R A T H e R dot com. 1897 01:38:40.119 --> 01:38:40.960 And I appreciate you. 1898 01:38:42.399 --> 01:38:43.159 He always a. 1899 01:38:43.159 --> 01:38:44.840 Pleasure to be on. Thank you so much, manmy, and 1900 01:38:45.000 --> 01:38:46.079 just let us know how we can help. 1901 01:38:46.239 --> 01:38:49.680 I sure will, thanks Ed. He is Uh, he's just fantastic. 1902 01:38:49.800 --> 01:38:52.920 And interesting times in the real estate market right now, 1903 01:38:53.079 --> 01:38:57.720 very interesting, not bad, not great, interesting And what is 1904 01:38:57.760 --> 01:39:00.600 the old curse? MAYE live in interesting times? Ryan Edwards? 1905 01:39:01.479 --> 01:39:04.159 We do live in interesting times. Indeed, I thought of you, 1906 01:39:04.600 --> 01:39:07.920 uh on Monday morning or when I was at Target, Okay, 1907 01:39:08.039 --> 01:39:10.159 because I swung by the Starbucks to get my car. 1908 01:39:10.239 --> 01:39:11.680 I just do regular coffee, then I don't do the 1909 01:39:11.720 --> 01:39:15.079 fancy coffee. And a woman in front of me literally went. 1910 01:39:15.199 --> 01:39:15.560 Just like this. 1911 01:39:15.720 --> 01:39:20.239 She picked up her coffee with PSL, I missed you, 1912 01:39:20.760 --> 01:39:22.600 And I was like, what is in that coffee cup? 1913 01:39:22.800 --> 01:39:27.800 Is there crack? What is in it that makes it addictive? Yes? 1914 01:39:28.159 --> 01:39:31.119 It is laced with heroin and all me a, why 1915 01:39:31.119 --> 01:39:32.640 do you think we all drink Coca Cola to the 1916 01:39:32.720 --> 01:39:35.960 day it started out with? Come on, you think that's 1917 01:39:36.000 --> 01:39:36.920 a coincidence. 1918 01:39:37.399 --> 01:39:41.399 I think in general, coffee and caffeine, right, yeah, coffee 1919 01:39:41.439 --> 01:39:43.760 can represent, you know, sort of a source of happiness 1920 01:39:43.800 --> 01:39:46.680 and and because it's only for a certain amount of time, 1921 01:39:47.279 --> 01:39:50.479 there's a specialness to it, like like Starbucks could do this. 1922 01:39:50.880 --> 01:39:54.039 Your scarcity is what you're talking about, garcity of it 1923 01:39:54.399 --> 01:39:57.560 makes it special. You know what's funny about coffee culture 1924 01:39:57.560 --> 01:40:00.560 in the United States versus coffee culture in Europe totally different. 1925 01:40:00.720 --> 01:40:02.520 They're the only thing that connects them is they are 1926 01:40:02.520 --> 01:40:05.520 both coffee related. But in Europe they don't have to 1927 01:40:05.600 --> 01:40:09.079 go cups. You are not the only people that walk 1928 01:40:09.119 --> 01:40:11.039 around Europe with a to go cup of coffee are 1929 01:40:11.039 --> 01:40:14.439 Americans because they sit and they have their little cups, 1930 01:40:14.840 --> 01:40:16.920 and they sit and enjoy their coffee and they have 1931 01:40:17.000 --> 01:40:18.880 a conversation and then they get up and go about 1932 01:40:18.880 --> 01:40:19.680 their day. It's funny. 1933 01:40:19.680 --> 01:40:21.439 I have a limited Europe one time. But now that 1934 01:40:21.520 --> 01:40:23.039 you bring it up, yeah I didn't. I didn't think 1935 01:40:23.079 --> 01:40:25.640 about it at the time. But everywhere we went and 1936 01:40:25.680 --> 01:40:28.159 got coffee, it was a we sit here and have 1937 01:40:28.279 --> 01:40:29.319 coffee and have coffee. 1938 01:40:29.439 --> 01:40:32.000 And I told Chuck the first three months of my retirement, 1939 01:40:32.079 --> 01:40:35.319 I fully intend to spend in laws on Switzerland, on 1940 01:40:35.399 --> 01:40:38.239 the shores of Lake Geneva, sitting and drinking little coffee 1941 01:40:38.479 --> 01:40:40.720 out of little cups. Switzerland is so bod oh. It 1942 01:40:40.880 --> 01:40:43.520 is probably my favorite place in the world other than 1943 01:40:43.520 --> 01:40:46.479 the United States. Switzerland is number two. Can't wait to 1944 01:40:46.520 --> 01:40:48.520 go back there in the summer. It's on my list 1945 01:40:48.560 --> 01:40:50.439 of things to do. So I have to ask you 1946 01:40:50.479 --> 01:40:54.640 a question about your show yesterday because a listener pointed 1947 01:40:54.720 --> 01:40:57.399 out that Dave Logan was kind of giving you grief 1948 01:40:57.399 --> 01:40:59.039 a little bit about. 1949 01:40:58.800 --> 01:41:01.039 Losing out the day well deserved, and I was talking 1950 01:41:01.079 --> 01:41:03.279 to Anthey about it. I mean, my brain locked up 1951 01:41:03.680 --> 01:41:05.640 and it was one of those deals where I mean 1952 01:41:05.760 --> 01:41:08.279 people can say they've been there or they won't. But 1953 01:41:08.439 --> 01:41:11.039 for whatever reason, my brain on a Tuesday after a 1954 01:41:11.079 --> 01:41:14.319 three day holiday weekend was just not not quite braining. 1955 01:41:14.399 --> 01:41:17.079 But did Dave Logan say he could win of the day? 1956 01:41:17.279 --> 01:41:20.840 Was that actually said? Because so pretty sure I'm going 1957 01:41:20.880 --> 01:41:22.880 to drop the gauntlet right in front of mister Logan. 1958 01:41:23.039 --> 01:41:23.800 Good luck with that, but. 1959 01:41:25.880 --> 01:41:26.640 Go on trying that. 1960 01:41:27.039 --> 01:41:30.720 But yeah, he did say something about that. I mean, 1961 01:41:30.760 --> 01:41:34.760 he is his brain is pretty phenomenal resault. 1962 01:41:34.880 --> 01:41:36.600 The thing that kills me about Dave Logan when I 1963 01:41:36.680 --> 01:41:39.359 listen to your show is when he's like that game 1964 01:41:39.439 --> 01:41:41.520 back in eighty seven. We were on the third and 1965 01:41:41.720 --> 01:41:44.159 seven and there was a sweep to the right, and 1966 01:41:44.239 --> 01:41:47.319 I'm like, what else is in there? It blows my mind. 1967 01:41:48.840 --> 01:41:51.359 Brain man, makes it quite literally impossible to get into 1968 01:41:51.359 --> 01:41:55.479 an argument about anything because I'm like, that didn't happen. 1969 01:41:55.439 --> 01:41:57.359 And I already know as soon as I say that, 1970 01:41:57.520 --> 01:42:00.199 you're going to come on, it definitely happened. Yeah, it's 1971 01:42:00.279 --> 01:42:03.000 it's it's really remarkable think about. And this is what 1972 01:42:03.119 --> 01:42:06.560 I imagine if David decided to cure cancer instead just 1973 01:42:06.680 --> 01:42:08.319 saying just throwing that out. 1974 01:42:08.199 --> 01:42:11.880 There, he and again the things he does already right now, 1975 01:42:12.479 --> 01:42:15.000 but it just feels like because of his brain. 1976 01:42:15.079 --> 01:42:17.319 You're right, he could be doing so much more. 1977 01:42:17.600 --> 01:42:19.920 I say that lovingly because as it is, I don't 1978 01:42:19.920 --> 01:42:21.920 know if the man ever sleeps because he has so 1979 01:42:22.079 --> 01:42:22.680 much on his plate. 1980 01:42:22.840 --> 01:42:24.960 Yeah, well, it's all self imposed. And don't feel too 1981 01:42:25.000 --> 01:42:27.920 sorry for him. Don't cry for him, Argentina, because now 1982 01:42:28.039 --> 01:42:30.439 it's time for the most exciting segment all the radio 1983 01:42:30.600 --> 01:42:35.159 of it's kind in the world of the day. All right, 1984 01:42:35.239 --> 01:42:39.920 what's our dada? Which letter keeps pirates calm? 1985 01:42:41.680 --> 01:42:41.720 No? 1986 01:42:42.319 --> 01:42:45.000 No, he because without it they are irate. 1987 01:42:45.479 --> 01:42:49.079 Oh okay, that's actually again. 1988 01:42:49.119 --> 01:42:51.399 I like that better than why they can't finish the alphabet? 1989 01:42:51.680 --> 01:42:54.920 Why is that because they get lost? That's oh well, okay. 1990 01:42:55.960 --> 01:42:57.880 I when is our word of the day? 1991 01:42:57.960 --> 01:42:58.279 Please? 1992 01:42:58.800 --> 01:43:05.039 It is an adjective adjective Byzantine Byzantine by z A 1993 01:43:05.319 --> 01:43:06.199 N T I N E. 1994 01:43:06.399 --> 01:43:08.600 Byzantine. Familiar with the word, and I don't think I 1995 01:43:08.640 --> 01:43:12.680 can clearly define either. I got nothing something to do 1996 01:43:12.720 --> 01:43:13.760 with the Byzantine Empire. 1997 01:43:14.479 --> 01:43:18.199 No, something described as Byzantine is very complicated, secret and 1998 01:43:18.319 --> 01:43:19.760 hard to Oh got it? 1999 01:43:19.880 --> 01:43:21.600 Okay, that's good. I don't think I ever knew that 2000 01:43:21.680 --> 01:43:25.119 word meant until right now. Anyway, In geometry, what is 2001 01:43:25.159 --> 01:43:28.840 an isaucles triangle? I've been thinking about this all day 2002 01:43:28.880 --> 01:43:31.359 and I think I know it well. Isaucles? Isn't that 2003 01:43:31.560 --> 01:43:35.520 the because because there's there's acute, which has a tiny 2004 01:43:35.560 --> 01:43:39.199 angle at an angle, and then oblong is the wider angle. 2005 01:43:39.520 --> 01:43:41.239 But that's not a triangle. Isn't it one of the 2006 01:43:41.319 --> 01:43:45.880 two of the same size? Yeah, that's what I thought 2007 01:43:45.880 --> 01:43:48.880 it was gonna get a triangle with two sides of 2008 01:43:48.920 --> 01:43:51.520 equal links. There is the two angles opposite. The equal 2009 01:43:51.560 --> 01:43:54.159 sides are also equal. There is, it's just even Stevens. 2010 01:43:54.720 --> 01:43:57.800 There you go, all right? What is our jeopardy category? 2011 01:43:58.079 --> 01:44:02.520 Another easy one for Ryan? Don't please God? It is episode. 2012 01:44:02.600 --> 01:44:06.800 I'd rather be anything else. Episode. Every answer has E 2013 01:44:06.920 --> 01:44:10.439 p I. Okay, there you go. There you go. A 2014 01:44:10.560 --> 01:44:13.239 fast spreading outbreak of a disease. What's an epidemic? 2015 01:44:13.399 --> 01:44:17.159 Correct a short section at the end of a book 2016 01:44:19.840 --> 01:44:23.920 from the Greek for seizure. It's a medieval condition, his epilepsy. 2017 01:44:24.560 --> 01:44:27.760 Ryan's on the board. A witty saying or expression and 2018 01:44:28.119 --> 01:44:28.600 an epithet. 2019 01:44:29.319 --> 01:44:30.880 No raw. 2020 01:44:33.399 --> 01:44:42.399 Brian saying or expression is epigram. I would have gotten 2021 01:44:42.399 --> 01:44:47.960 that so one, I just lost a point. The best 2022 01:44:48.079 --> 01:44:54.520 example of something, best example of. 2023 01:44:57.640 --> 01:44:58.720 I don't know, I don't know. 2024 01:44:58.960 --> 01:45:05.560 Let's go to a tiebreaker. It is epitome. Epitome. Um, 2025 01:45:05.760 --> 01:45:12.920 oh my, there's my Ryan. That's okay, epitome everyone. 2026 01:45:14.039 --> 01:45:16.760 Okay, it's okay because I was an epi. 2027 01:45:16.720 --> 01:45:20.920 Yeah, Ryan, watch yourself. Let's go to. 2028 01:45:22.520 --> 01:45:28.079 Play time. Okay, playtime. The French called this floor or 2029 01:45:28.199 --> 01:45:28.880 table game. 2030 01:45:29.680 --> 01:45:29.920 You know what. 2031 01:45:30.039 --> 01:45:31.760 No, I'm not gonna I'm gonna do that one. Shoots 2032 01:45:31.760 --> 01:45:36.920 and Ladders began as a hindoo game of these and ladders. Brian, Ryan, 2033 01:45:39.079 --> 01:45:42.560 I knew that one too, some free and fast enough 2034 01:45:42.720 --> 01:45:43.800 the epitome of success. 2035 01:45:43.920 --> 01:45:45.720 You guys, you guys set this up so I feel 2036 01:45:45.720 --> 01:45:46.760 a little better about myself. 2037 01:45:46.560 --> 01:45:49.600 To look that much like a fool. I didn't even 2038 01:45:49.640 --> 01:45:51.800 let my child win a candy Land when she was four. 2039 01:45:52.239 --> 01:45:54.319 You will never get a gift here. You don't believe 2040 01:45:54.840 --> 01:45:55.319 I have the. 2041 01:45:55.319 --> 01:45:59.359 Same mentality right about bold everything like when they win, 2042 01:45:59.479 --> 01:46:02.720 I want them to know they won the correct exactly. 2043 01:46:03.079 --> 01:46:05.560 And there's nobody gets a freebie from Mars. And you 2044 01:46:05.640 --> 01:46:08.039 know what, when she won the first time, she literally 2045 01:46:08.159 --> 01:46:10.640 danced around with her fingers in my face, so I 2046 01:46:10.720 --> 01:46:12.920 knew I'd done it right. We'll be back tomorrow. Oka 2047 01:46:13.279 --> 01:46:14.960 Sports coming up next. Keep it right here,